A casualty on a real crag
You'll assess, package and protect a (well-briefed) casualty on actual rock, not a mat in a sports hall.
Wilderness medicine · Scottish Highlands
Treat the casualty
before the weather does.
Two-day wilderness first aid certification, taught outdoors in real Highland weather by a mountain rescue veteran. No classroom theatre — a fake casualty on a real crag, and hypothermia drills in a very cold loch.
- 2 daysHands-on, outdoors
- 3 yrsCertificate validity
- 1:6Instructor ratio
Why this course
Skills that hold up when the path runs out.
Most first aid courses assume an ambulance is ten minutes away. In the hills it isn't. You might be two hours from a track and four from a road, in driving rain, with a casualty going cold.
This weekend trains you for exactly that gap — the period between an accident happening and Mountain Rescue reaching you — so you can keep someone alive, comfortable and findable until help arrives.
What makes it real
Cold, wet & deliberate
Hypothermia drills involve a very cold loch. You'll feel what cold does to a casualty — and to your own hands.
Taught by rescue, not slides
Your instructor has spent two decades on Highland callouts. Every scenario comes from a real one.
Next available
Upcoming weekends
Free field kit
The one-page checklist we teach from.
A printable, fold-in-your-map-case first aid checklist — primary survey, hypothermia, bleeding, and what to tell Mountain Rescue. Take it on the hill whether or not you book.
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