BIOGRAPHIC BRIEF

Peter Kummerfeldt is the owner of, and chief instructor for OutdoorSafe Inc — an organization that conducts outdoor safety skills seminars, survival training programs, disaster preparation and travel safety seminars throughout the United States. Peter grew up in Kenya, East Africa and came to America in 1965 where he joined the Air Force. He is a graduate of the Air Force Survival Instructor Training School and has served as an instructor at the Basic Survival School, Spokane Washington, the Arctic Survival School, Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Jungle Survival School, Republic of the Philippines. He also served for twelve years as the Survival Training Director at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He retired from the Air Force in 1995 after 30 years of service. In 1992, concerned with the number of accidents that were occurring in the outdoors each year and the number of tourist traveling overseas who were involved in unpleasant and sometimes life-threatening incidents he created OutdoorSafe. He has since addressed over 20,000 people as the featured speaker at numerous seminars, conferences and national conventions. His efforts have reduced the number of people becoming injured, ill or dying in the outdoors each year and have heightened traveler’s safety awareness to the point that his clients have returned unscathed from many trips abroad.

Organizations represented at his programs in the recent past include:

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Dallas Safari Club
UC San Diego, School of Medicine,
US Department of Homeland Defense
US Department of the Interior
US Bureau of Reclamation
US Department of Treasury
US Geological Survey
US Bureau of Land Management
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Colorado Division of Wildlife
Oklahoma Wildlife Department

O’Loughlin Sportsmen’s Show Shows
Safari Club International
Milwaukee Sportsmen’s Show
Rocky Mountain Air Fair
Wyoming Outdoor Sports Show
Montana Outdoor Recreation Exposition
Wilderness Medical Society
Minnesota Seaplane Association
Eastern Sports Show
Boy Scouts of America
Chicagoland Sports Show
Foundation for NA Wild Sheep

Peter is the author of a practical survival book titled “Surviving a Wilderness Emergency” and over thirty other articles on surviving in the outdoors. He has been featured in many magazines to include Field and Stream, Popular Mechanics, American Rifleman, Trail Blazer and Boy’s Life.

He has also been featured on numerous television shows to include: Discovery Health, Roving with the Practical Outdoorsman, The Outdoor Edge, The Outdoor Guides, The Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show, Good Morning Central Oregon, Expedition Safari and Oklahoma Outdoors.

HONORS:

2004 Wilderness Medical Society, Warren D. Bowman MD Award.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Wilderness Medical Society
National Association for Search and Rescue
Outdoor Writers Association of America
International Hunter Education Association (Life Member)
National Rifle Association (Life Member)
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (Life Member)
Mule Deer Foundation
Dallas Safari Club (Life Member)
Safari Club International (Life Member)
Federation of Fly Fishermen
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Society (Life Member)

Today he is renowned for his informative programs, his highly developed speaking skills and his ability to work with federal, state and local government agencies, as well as numerous civic organizations, schools and other groups interested in receiving quality safety training. Peter is currently on the faculty of Emergency Response International and the Safari Club International Foundation, American Wilderness Leadership School.

Peter and his wife Mary live in Colorado Springs, Colorado