Want to be inspired to do something a little different? Dr Andrew Buckley reminisces about his time as a medic on an epic vintage car rally from Beijing to Paris.

One hundred paraglider pilots, 660 porters, one 5895m mountain and three doctors. Adventure Medic Editor Matt Wilkes tells the epic story of Wings of Kilimanjaro: the record-breaking attempt to fly from the summit of Kilimanjaro to Moshi. Read on for a tale of friendship, altitude, hunger, thwarted ambition and one crazy Nepali.

Dr David Hillebrandt and Adventure Medic Student Rep Naomi Dodds report back on the Tenth World Congress on High Altitude Medicine and Physiology and Mountain Emergency Medicine, held in Bolzano, Italy in May this year.

After completing FY2 in London, John Hickman set off to work in Emergency Medicine in the beautiful KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. He recounts his incredible experiences for Adventure Medic.

We chat to Jon Dallimore, Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine and International Mountain Leader about the ups and downs of a very enviable career.

Highlighting an impressive cosmos of online resources for the adventure medic, Dr Tash Pirie-Burley gives us her lively insight into the world of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM).

As Tom Daley prepares to defend his Commonwealth Games titles in Glasgow, here is a little diving of the kind we at Adventure Medic enjoy – just to whet your appetite.

Andrew Buckley documents his time as the doctor for the 2013 Peking to Paris vintage car race with beautiful photos from the daunting 13,000km rally route.

In their first ‘Extreme Medicine’ video podcast, Yash and Jan take us back to Everest Base Camp where they chat to the Spring 2014 season Everest ER doctors about the challenges of medicine at remote high altitude.

In 2003, American ER doctor Luanne Freer, founded the world’s highest medical facility at 5345m: ‘Everest ER’. Adventure Medic Staff Writer Hannah Evans caught up for an interview.