Dr Stuart Allan combines his day-job as a GP in Cumbria with teaching on the UK Diploma of Mountain Medicine, and runs…a lot! Stuart has learned through practice and subsequent research, the truths behind hydration for optimum performance in endurance events.

Dr Mina Arsanious describes his experience as an expedition medic with Raleigh International in Costa Rica; taking us from a community project to a conservation project to a twenty-one day Dragon Trek.

In this article, Jeremy Windsor questions how transplant patients’ physiology is affected by high altitude, and the steps that can be taken to mitigate against the risks in these patients.

Following the publication of his book – ‘Signs of Life: To the Ends of the Earth with a Doctor’ – about his six-year global cycle-tour, Dr Stephen Fabes shares with us the difficulties he faced in returning home and how he overcame this to step back into the medical world

Far from help and faced with a patient in acute pain; what are your options for analgesia in the remote setting? Dr Craig Miller discusses the rationale for including Penthrox® in his medical kit.

Hannah Schneiders recounts her experiences of her expedition with Exile Medics – a week of desert survival skills and expedition medicine in the Namibian desert – and reflects on what she has since applied in expedition medicine and in medical education. 

Adventure medic would like to congratulate the ten-man Nepali team on the remarkable first winter ascent of K2 on 16th January 2021; an ascent that has been famously known as ‘the last great mountaineering challenge’. At 17:00 on the 16th of January, the first winter ascent was claimed by an all-Nepali team; lead by Mingma Gyalje Sherpa and Nirmal Purja […]

We are delighted to announce that from 2021, Adventure Medic will be in the capable hands of the next generation of adventurous medics, led by Shona Main, Rebecca Trimble and Tom Beddis.

Dr Edi Albert Taking the science of medical error analysis and systems-based thinking out of the hospital, our very own Adventure Medic patron, Dr Edi Albert takes us through a case-based account of how we can learn from and ultimately prevent mistakes when on expeditions or in the wilderness. We also learn that sometimes the most valuable skills any expedition […]

The seventh continent leaves many spellbound with its captivating beauty and unique wildlife. Expedition doctor Jodie Sage shares the challenges and rewards of medicine as the ship doctor from her experience operating at both Poles.