Bernstein [has] almost 20 years of wilderness experience and environmental advocacy under his belt. Since 1997, he has served as president and CEO of BOSS, the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, the oldest and largest survival school in the world. At BOSS, course participants challenge themselves on survival course up to one month in length, learning primitice skills like how to make to make fire without matches, build shelter from local materials, and turn river ricks into cutting edges. Participants also learn to walk more gently on the earth and live withint he limits of local resources.

When not traveling or leading BOSS courses, Bernstein lives between a yurt in Southern Utah and an apartment in New York City. For the last 3 years, Bernstein has hosted hit adventure/archaelogy series "Digging for the Truth" on The History Channel.