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The New Zealand Mountain Safety Council (MSC) has issued a press release regarding the New Zealand Coroner's Report on the deaths of six high school students and a teacher on April 15, 2008 in a canyoning accident on a program run by the Sir Edmund...

Folks The Wilderness Medical Society convened an expert panel to develop evidence-based guidelines for prevention and treatment of acute mountain sickness, high altitude cerebral edema and high altitude pulmonary edema. These recommendations are published...

Outdoor Nation is a growing community of young Outsiders -- artists, athletes, advocates and ambassadors -- who have joined together to champion the outdoors. This new youth-led movement will reclaim, redefine and rediscover the outdoors - building an...

Have you heard the story of evolving snake venom? Apparently snake venom in general is becoming more potent and, gasp, snakes have been interbreeding and sharing potent neurotoxins. Alas, while this is good stuff for horror movies, it’s not yet...

Folks This is an update on the wilderness first aid scope of practice process and documents. Our group of colleagues have been working steadily on these documents.We have circulated several drafts of the Wilderness First Aid (WFA) Scope of Practice document...

As we turn the corner away from the 00’s or the “aughts” or whatever historians will choose to call the last decade, it’s worth taking a moment to look ahead toward future trends and issues that will affect things in the outdoor...

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The standard dictum when advising persons who travel to high altitude, and thus expose themselves to a lower atmospheric oxygen concentration, is to stay "well...