Mountain Shepherd is one of the finest wilderness survival schools in the U.S. Located in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, it has been featured on Yahoo! News, CNN, The History Channel, PBS, Examiner.com and in National Geographic Adventure Magazine, The New York Times, The Roanoke Times, Oprah Magazine and Deep Survival.
Mountain Shepherd helps you gain the experience and develop a higher level of confidence to enjoy any wilderness environment. We provide you with the expert skills and knowledge necessary to cope in the wilderness, in the city, while traveling, in a natural disaster or government collapse. You never know when a wrong turn, a change in the weather, a natural disaster or terrorist attack turns an every day adventure in to a survival situation.
The instructors’ unrivaled technical expertise, passion for teaching & dedicated human touch, prepares the nation’s warriors for survival.






