What I Wish I Knew Before I Was a Camp Counselor
See why a former camp counselor thinks all camp staff should have wilderness medicine trainings!
See why a former camp counselor thinks all camp staff should have wilderness medicine trainings!
One NOLS graduate uses her Wilderness First Responder skills to help a surfer in need.
When gender or sex is relevant to treating a patient, it's important to communicate respectfully and not make assumptions.
Don't believe everything you see in the movies! Get the real scoop on common myths about treating snakebites from NOLS Wilderness Medicine.
In the movies, snakes bite constantly, fly through the air to strike, and kill their victims almost instantly with their venomous bites. Those involved respond in all manner of ways, from trying to photograph and identify the snakes’ species in 2006’s Snakes on a Plane to cutting open the bite wound and attempting to suck out the poison in 2010’s True Grit. Needless to say, these sensationalized portrayals can be misleading.
NOLS Wilderness Medicine grad Carina Ahlqvist will be the first Scandinavian woman to summit Makalu— but that's not why she joined the 2018 Climate ...
Lynn Hill is famous for her legendary free climb of the Nose on El Capitan. What you might not know is that she's a NOLS Wilderness First Responder ...
Check out the top 9 wilderness medicine jobs you can score with a wilderness medicine certification.
Here's some key advice from NOLSies to help ward off small illnesses and injuries that could lead to a more serious medical situation.
3 days into guiding a 9-day trip on the Olympic Peninsula, my colleagues and I noticed that a 65 year old client was showing more fatigue than we ...
Longtime instructor shares stories from the most diverse NOLS Wilderness Medicine course she has ever taught.
Ready for the Challenge: How I Became a Wilderness EMT