Age: 58

Profession: Survival Educator and Former SAS Soldier QLD

A master of survival, Rick knows better than most what it’s like to be in a tough situation. After joining the military at age 17, he later joined the SAS and spent over 8 years learning all forms of extreme survival, including snow and ice mountain warfare in caves and blizzards. He left the military to focus on his wife and two sons, the unit he holds most valuable.

Lately, Rick’s been a bushcraft survival educator, running a bushcraft and survival school that prioritizes bringing fathers and sons together through learning and shared time together. He’s always had a strong interest in ethnobotany, the connection between native plants and their Indigenous cultural uses. He is particularly curious about the fire-lighting, nutritional, medicinal and crafting qualities of plants.

This fascination may have fed into his becoming an unlikely social media star, with a TikTok account amassing over 1.3M likes and 176,000 loyal followers, whom he affectionately refers to as ‘Bushtokkers’.