Peter Kummerfeldt’s wilderness and outdoor safety courses teach both the psychological and the physiological aspects of surviving a wilderness emergency. This training includes: fire building, emergency shelters, food and water procurement and preparation, emergency signaling techniques and rescue and recovery procedures.
Survival stresses that often lead to panic, and sometimes to death are identified. Planning and preparing for a survival situation is covered in detail.
Emphasis is placed on putting together a survival kit and developing the survival skills (building fires, emergency shelters, finding and purifying water, signaling for help, ) needed to maintain life under extreme wilderness conditions.
Wilderness medicine and the prevention of cold and heat injuries such as hypothermia, hyperthermia, dehydration, receive special attention.
For those traveling to altitudes above 8,000 feet programs are available that address the prevention, recognition and field treatment of high altitude illnesses such as Acute Mountain Sickness, (AMS) High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE) and High Altitude Cerebral Edema. (HACE)
Other seminars cover: surviving in your car, animal and plant hazards, preventing lightning injuries, commercial and improvised survival equipment.
The seminars given by Peter Kummerfeldt prepare people to survive after natural disasters or terrorist attacks and are particularly relevant in today’s world.
For those traveling overseas programs that focus on the threats to safe travel, precautions to take to reduce the odds of becoming the target of thieves or terrorists.
Hands-on training that teaches participants how to stay found by not getting lost through the use of maps, compass and Global Positioning Systems is also available.

In 1992, concerned with the number of deaths and injuries that occurred in the outdoors each year he started the Survival Consultant Group and later OutdoorSafe.

He has since addressed over 18,000 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.

He is a member of the Outdoor Writers of America Association, the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep and the Federation of Fly Fishermen. Peter is also a life member of the National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep Society.

Organizations represented at his programs in the past included:

Colorado Division of Wildlife
Eastern Sports Show
Emergency Response International
Minnesota Seaplane Association
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Montana Outdoor Recreation Exposition
Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Department
O’Loughlin Trade Shows
Pikes Peak Guide School
Reed Exhibition Companies
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Safari Club International
Target Communications
UC San Diego, School of Medicine, Wilderness Medicine program
US Bureau of Reclamation
US Department of the Interior
Wandering Star Wilderness Medicine Conferences
Wilderness Medical Society
Wyoming Outdoor Sports Show

Today, Peter 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 wilderness safety training.

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 currently is on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego Wilderness Medicine staff and the Emergency Response International.

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. Peter and his wife Mary live in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Notice:
When going outdoors it is your responsibility to have the proper knowledge, experience and equipment to recreate or work safely. The information provided here is for educational use only and is not a substitute for specific training or experience. The author assumes no liability for any individuals use of or reliance on the techniques, procedures or information presented. No one is more responsible for your safety in the outdoors than you are.