Andrew Davidson (Kent Survival)

Andrew Davidson is an outdoorsman, and a popular YouTuber.

He has 640K subscribers on his YouTube channel, ‘Kent Survival.’

Introduction-

Andrew Davidson was born on 5 November and hails from Kent, England, United Kingdom.

Initially, he grew up in the urban space and so, wasn’t aware of the beauty of the outdoors but this love for outdoors kicked in when he moved to live in a house near heathland.

In his mid-teens, Andrew along with his friends used to spend a lot of time in the woods doing outdoor activities like building shelters and camping.

Most of the time, they didn’t even have tarps and they used to just sleep in sleeping bags in the open air and would move under trees for cover during rains.

Andrew was also a scout.

A photographer-

In his twenties, Andrew became a landscape photographer and used to travel around Kent and camp in the woods and in historic abandoned locations and wait for the perfect timings to capture sunrises and sunsets.

As a photographer, he also travelled to the Peak District National Park and Cornish coastline.

Andrew also developed an interest in survival prepping.

Career-

Andrew did a job for a decade and then quit it.

He ran a barbecue company and catered barbecue and made barbecue sauces and thanks to this, he fell in love with cooking and this is the reason for him to publish many cooking videos on his YouTube channel.

As Andrew didn’t have the required capital to scale his barbecue company, he closed it after a couple of years.

Then, he became a carpenter and later he became a full-time YouTuber.

Inspiration-

Andrew was inspired by the videos of Bear Grylls, Ray Mears, Les Stroud and Ed Stafford and started his YouTube channel, ‘Kent Survival‘ on 20 November 2016.

He started his channel as this would force him to do outdoor activities and learn new skills.

As Andrew is based in Kent, England, he named his channel, Kent Survival.

He started off his channel with his Canon 550D camera but it didn’t have autofocus at that time, so he bought a second camera, a Panasonic Camcorder HC-V210 and started using these two cameras to shoot videos.

Later, Andrew sold his Canon 550D and upgraded to a Canon EOS M3 camera and also started using a RØDE VideoMic Pro and a tripod.

A successful YouTuber-

As of January 2024, Andrew has 640K subscribers on his ‘Kent Survival’ channel.

His background in filmmaking (he studied filmmaking in college), and design helped him in his success.

Andrew earns through a variety of sources like advertisements on his YouTube videos, sponsorships, affiliate marketing, selling merchandise and through accepting donations through Patreon and PayPal.

On 27 May 2020, he started his second YouTube channel, ‘Kent Survival Gear & Review’ and on this channel he reviews outdoor gear.

Andrew has a website.

His favourite channels-

The following are Andrew’s favourite camping and bushcraft YouTube channels-

• Joe Robinet (read the story of Joe Robinet).
• My Self Reliance (read the story of Shawn James).
• Simon, a bloke in the woods.
• Cowboy Kent Rollins.
• Nagualero.
• carlisle195.

Personal life-

Andrew hasn’t revealed much of his personal life except in one of his videos that he has a girlfriend, Nico.

Some interesting facts about Andrew Davidson-

• He is a fan of heavy metal music especially the Blues and he also likes classic rock and Led Zeppelin album covers.
• Andrew loves camping in the autumn season and hates camping in the summer heat.
• His dream is to camp in Canada’s boreal forest and in Sweden and Scotland.
• As Andrew isn’t a people person and introvert, he enjoys camping, bushcrafting and cooking alone.
• He never served in the military.
• While camping Andrew always carries an umbrella, sunglasses, painkillers, wet wipes, tissues, food, phone charger, glass breaker (which also doubles as a seatbelt cutter), Gerber Blend Bear Grylls Ultimate Multi-Tool, etc.
• Dartmoor is his favourite camping spot as he likes the openness and remoteness of this place. He also enjoys camping in Woodland.

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