Otto Kilcher
Birth Name:
Otto Kilcher
Fast Facts
- Spent his early years playing in the woods and canyons around his home, and when he was old enough to help with cattle drives, he did so on foot
- Is considered a master mechanic and machinist on the Discovery Channel's hit TV show "Alaska: The Last Frontier," collecting broken down machinery and fixing it by hand
- Relying on hunting for his family's meat supply as a child, had a love of the wildlife that led him to focus on raising cattle and running the farm
- Was part of the first expedition to successfully cross the Harding Icefield in 1968