WALTER A. MATTHEWS is a survival skills specialist who also served for over 21 years in the Chilean Marine Corps. In 2004 he founded the first Survival and Primitive Skills School in Chile.

As a S.E.R.E. Instructor (Survival, Evasion, Resistance Escape), he has also trained Special Forces Operators in Survival Techniques. He is a graduate of The Pathfinder School (Ohio, USA) at “Pioneer” Level and has many other courses within the area of Emergency Preparedness, being also an Instructor in this area, for the IDEP (Institute for Disasters and Emergency preparedness) at the Nova
Southeastern University in Florida.

Since 2016 Walter became a designer of survival and bushcraft knives, for the worldwide well known brand Condor Tool & Knife.
(https://www.condortk.com/index.php/about/designers)