David Miln Smith (born October 17, 1938) is a speaker and adventure athlete.
He made a name for himself in the 1960s and 1970s with a series of extreme and international multi-sports events, such as "Everyman's Olympics" and the "Peace Pentathlon."
Johnny Carson said, “He travels around the world doing all the things you want to do.” The Today Show called him "the King of the Risk Takers".
David was the son of Dr. Seymour and Gladys Smith of San Francisco, California.
From 1973 to 1999 he was on staff at Earth House,[1] a residential treatment center for young people diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in East Millstone, New Jersey, first as a yoga instructor and psychodrama facilitator, and later as the director of their "Earth Adventure" program, an early example of wilderness therapy in which a group of twenty to forty patients would be led on a camping expedition onto the Appalachian Trail, and perform a wilderness course including climbing, rappelling, and canoeing through rapids.