A detailed reference work for everybody travelling the mountains and keen to know more about medicine and health „in the outdoors.“

In addition to first aid and makeshift rescue, topics like training and nutrition, women and children in high altitude, health problems on trekkings and expeditions, medical issues in rock climbing, canyoning, mountain biking and so on are explained by experienced mountain doctors. Countless practical tips are presented in an easy to understand language.

Authors
Anna Giulia Brunello is a doctor in the field of emergency medical care at the Graubünden Cantonal Hospital. Her wealth of experience as a REGA emergency- and expedition doctor, as well as her enthusiasm for the advancement of emergency medicine has been an invaluable asset to SAC training courses for many years now. She is an active member of the Swiss Society for Mountain Medicine.

Urs Hefti is an orthopedic surgeon, sports doctor and chief physician at Swiss Sportclinic in Bern. As a board member of the Swiss Society for Mountain Medicine and the medical commission of the UIAA, he is actively involved in the development of expedition- and altitude medicine. In 1998 he worked in Nepal for the Himalayan Rescue Association and to date has led four major research expeditions and climbed various mountains in Nepal, Tibet and South America.

Martin Walliser is the senior doctor for trauma surgery at the Cantonal Hospital in Glarus. He is vice president of the Swiss Society for Mountain Medicine and is active in the medical training of laypersons and professionals. Martin Walliser has been a mountain guide since 1993 and regularly travels in the Alps, but also in South and North America as well as in Asia and Africa.

The Swiss Society for Mountain Medicine (SGGM), founded in 1994, is a non-profit organization whose goals are training, teaching and research in the fields of physiology, emergency medicine, sports medicine and other medical disciplines related to mountaineering. The SGGM is backed nationally and internationally through close cooperation with national and international bodies, including the SAC.