We’re calling for people to help push the Chris Lewis support fund over the £1 million summit! Chris was gravely injured while rescuing two campers in the Lake District in breach of lockdown rules. Here’s how you can help. Read more »
Dancing with death and coming out the other side. How many near misses does it take until we start learning from others' mistakes? That's where the BMC Incident and Near Miss reporting system comes into play. Find out more from Jon Garside, Training Officer for the BMC and Mountain Training England. Read more »
The BMC Incident and Near Miss reporting system has now been up and running for three months, so we thought we’d take a look at the response so far and encourage anyone involved in an incident or near miss to share their experience. Read more »
The BMC Incident and Near-miss reporting system is for walkers, climbers and mountaineers, run in partnership with Mountaineering Scotland. The idea is simple: to reflect on our experiences from when things have gone wrong, and then share so that others in our community might learn from this. Read more »
John Ellerton, holder and faculty member of the Diploma of Mountain Medicine and Medical Officer to the MRC England & Wales, looks at what you need to do in the event of a mountain incident. Read more »
Is there are risk of blood-borne infections being transmitted to climbers? The UIAA Medical Commission attempts to answer this vital question in its latest advice paper. Read more »
A fully functioning and publicly accessible emergency de-fibrillator machine has been placed at the summit of Snowdon, to give some assistance to trained people in the event of a person suffering a heart-attack. Read more »
This download consists of two forms designed to live in your personal mountain first aid kit. Read more »
Blizzard Survival has been presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2009, for its range of ultra lightweight thermal products, made from the company’s groundbreaking Reflexcell™ material. Read more »
Claude Rey, President of the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations, has died after falling into a crevasse in the Swiss Alps. Read more »
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