Adventure Medic is delighted to introduce Dr Yashvi Wimalasena and Dr Jan Trojanowski and their ‘Extreme Medicine’ video podcasts. Together, over the next few months, we will be taking you all over the world, from mile-high medicine aboard a 747, to the poles and up into space through a series of educational video podcasts on all things extreme medicine.

Familiarity with BS 8848: the Specification for the Provision of Visits, Fieldwork, Expeditions and Adventurous Activity is crucial for those working as expedition or event medics. After all, soon it may be what you are judged by. Jim Moonie bought a copy so we didn’t have to.

Surgeon Lieutenant Jo Laird of HMS Somerset chats to Adventure Medic about the challenges and rewards of military medicine as a Royal Navy doctor.

We catch up with the fast-rising French extreme sports filmmaker Shams, fresh back from Ektremsportveko in Norway. He tells us to get a GoPro, a first aid kit, a cat and follow your dreams.

If you liked Graham Dawson’s recent article on climbing El Cap, then check out this film teaser for a look back at how it all began.

Dr Graham Dawson recounts his trip to Yosemite last summer to climb The Nose. Tragedy, rescue and vertical labouring.

Some stunning slow motion footage of one of the World’s heaviest waves

Street skiing in BC

A short collection of footage featuring beautiful images of people falling.

I guess it’s all in the title, something to make you feel small and vulnerable – the big one is at the end