Boris Stermotić is the founder and chief instructor of Croatian Outdoor Survival School (COSS). He started with naturvival from the moment of his first escape into the wilderness in his teenage years, when he realized that all the components of the wilderness had a perfect logic of existence.

Passion for the nature and adventure led him to study survival techniques from experienced survival organizations in Italy, Scotland and USA. In Italy he worked for many years and growth his experience like survival expert in organizations like Avventura Team (AICS) and FISSS where he experiment outdoor team buildings with youngsters with great results. He also accomplished many other certificates that help his growth, like apnea and mtb instructor, sea rescue and others.

Pure love for the nature and the adventure led Boris to form first Croatian Outdoor Survival School. Driven by the feelings and the understanding of being only an interpreter of nature, he moved further into propagate survival movement in his country. He start with first survival associations in Croatia - HUPP and create Forum Preživljavanja, biggest outdoor community in his region that regroup survival and bushcraft enthusiast and count more than one million visits each year, community that give births to other communities of survival and bushcraft in Croatia and nearest regions. He is also one of author of Naturvival Movement, writer of Survival Manual Preživi, published freely on the web and of survival column in Meta magazine, promoter of many outdoor manifestation and festivals, guest on talk shows and others.
Due his originally training as designer, bid Boris to design Survival Kukri Knive, survival tool per excellence, produced by FKMD Italy and distributed around the globe.

Boris is always eager to learn new skills and to share his knowledge's unselfishly with others, always educating that we do not inherit this earth from our ancestors, we only borrow it from our children's.