Mike Grocott Expedition and Wilderness Medicine lecturer speaks to the BBC about the Caudwell Extreme Everest Expedition

Everest trip helps critically ill Copyright  Michelle Roberts BBC News health reporter Dr Grocott and the Caudwell team plan another trek in 2009 The lessons learned by medics from a trip to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients. The team that braved the Himalayan summit to study the body’s responses to extreme [...]

Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Staff Bio: Dr Denny Levett

Denny Levett Denny Levett is a Specialist Registrar in Critical Care and Anaesthesia at UCL. She is the deputy director of the Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine at UCL and has extensive experience in expedition medicine. Denny has research interests in altitude medicine and diving and hyperbaric medicine and is a keen [...]

Luanne Freer joins the Expedition Medicine team.

We where privileged at EML to have the Everest Base Camp MD Luanne Freer join our lecture team for the Lake District Expedition Medicine courses during her recent visit to the UK She has a great website for those of you interested in altitude medicine and the video below illustrates the difficulties of operating at this height Visit [...]

Expedition Medicine medics study the effects of altitude

Eight members of the extreme Everest team, which includes Across the Divide and Expedition Medicine medic Dr Denny Levett, summited last week. As if this wasnt hard enough, they also had the energy to take arterial samples from each other at 8450m and carried out some further scientific studies at the south col. We are always [...]