Vascular surgeon Chris Imray explores the jungles and mountains of West Papua on an ascent of the most exotic Seventh Summit: Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania’s highest peak.

Charlotte Gunner describes her motivation, preparation, experiences and reflections of volunteering as a junior doctor in surgery in a resource-poor hospital in Zambia.

A diagnostic conundrum from BES Ladakh expedition doctor Nick Haslam, including some fascinating video footage of the patient’s neurological signs.

Dr Zoe Smeed, Edinburgh-based Emergency Medicine registrar with a special interest in pre-hospital care travels to the Arctic Circle to learn from Norway’s pre-hospital, retrieval and emergency services first hand.

James Coates on his first expedition with Operation Wallacea to Cusuco National Park in Honduras. Featuring some stunning photography and great advice for those starting out in wilderness medicine.

Simon Greenfield, an Emergency Care Practitioner with the West Midlands Ambulance Service, on deploying to Gorka in Nepal with Humanity First Medical following the 2015 earthquakes.

What makes a medic go BASE jumping? Offering more reflections than answers, Trauma Fellow BASE #1863 tells us about his life-changing experiences in the most extreme of sports.

GP registrar Dr Hannah Fox has spent the last year working in palliative medicine in Kolkata, India. In a city were health inequalities between rich and poor are stark, Hannah shares her experiences of palliative care on both side of the coin.

What does it take to practice medicine in the coldest, darkest corner of our planet? We interviewed Alex Kumar and Beth Healey, European Space Agency doctors at Concordia station about darkness, hypoxia and life at -80C.

GP trainee Katie Sellens swapped locuming in the UK for island-life by volunteering as a medic for Operation Wallacea in remote Indonesia.