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Guy started work in the outdoor education industry in 1990. He has worked all over the country with a wide spectrum of corporate and educational client groups and traveled extensively on expeditions, mostly in polar regions.  He set up Adventure First Aid in 2003 and has delivered over 350 courses in this time.

Guy spent 6 years as Casualty Care officer for Devon Cave Rescue and is still a volunteer First Responder for Westcountry Ambulance Service.  He holds the casualty Care in Mountain Rescue qualification, helps Doctors teach on the overseas medical intervention course and regularly attends and helps teach on continuation training events.  He is also an Associate member of the Institute for Learning and holds an Adult teaching qualification.

Within ITC First Aid Ltd (our awarding body) Guy has been an External verifier, a member of the Technical committee and a mentor for new trainers.

Guy is now on sabbatical for 2 years to train as a paramedic.

Cory has been associated with Adventure First Aid for the last 2 years. Cory runs First Aid Academy from Skipton and works alongside Guy Risdon and others developing new trainers and courses for ITC First Aid.  Cory has a wealth of experience in teaching and expedition leading.

Ross Anderson is from a small town in the Pennine area of Yorkshire.  He is currently a surgeon for the NHS and spends his spare time working as an expedition doctor.  He holds a diploma in altitude and travel medicine, and has been on expeditions to the mountainous areas of Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda, with further trips planed to Kenya, arctic Norway and the Italian Alps.  He is an active fell runner, open-water > swimmer (brrrr) and holds a private pilots’ license. Ross has worked as an expedition doctor on numerous trips and has recently appeared on TV with Ben Fogle on Extreme Dreams.

We first met Ross when he came on the Mountain & Outdoor course as a course member.  Since then Ross has helped to develop our Overseas Medical Intervention course which is now available.

Tom is the head of Outdoor Education at Exmouth Community College, the largest secondary school in the UK. He joined the Adventure First Aid early in 2009 and has worked with a variety of groups from school pupils to adults. He has organised and led successful expeditions to Africa and South America during which he had to deal with first aid incidents ranging from mundane to bizarre. He has kayaked and climbed extensively across the UK and Western Europe. At the age of 19 he climbed Mt. Lhotse which at 8,516m is the fourth highest mountain in the world. This made him the youngest person ever to climb Lhotse and the youngest British person to climb any of the worlds fourteen 8,000m peaks, all without the use of supplemental oxygen. Tom has had first hand experience of hypothermic and hypoxic environments all backed up by the theoretical knowledge from his degree in Sports Science and Physiology.