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With 17 years experience in the outdoor education industry, Guy has worked in residential outdoor centres as a senior instructor, as a freelancer and as a Development Trainer and Learning Skills Tutor for the University of Exeter. Qualified as a Mountain Leader, Climbing Instructor and Cave Leader, Guy has worked all over the country with a wide spectrum of corporate and educational client groups.  He set up Adventure First Aid in 2003 which now delivers over 80 courses a year to a variety of client groups.

Guy has experience in arctic, desert and mountain travel and has worked with the Portsmouth University Geohazard Research Centre as a field scientist in Taiwan, and with BSES Expeditions as a leader on their '06 Leadership Development programme in Spitzbergen.  He also works in Sweden as a cold weather survival instructor with Intrepid expeditions.

Guy lives in South Devon with his wife, daughter, son and eccentric collie. He is passionate about the outdoors, working and playing as much as possible in, on, above and below it!

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 attend 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 is an External verifier, a member of the Technical committee and a mentor for new trainers.

Over the next year Adventure First Aid will strive to maintain its high standard of experiential, dynamic and interactive training. The Outdoor  First Aid 16 hour programme has proved to be the "course of choice" for the majority of outdoor providers in the South West of England, and some further afield.

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.

Nicky Brown joined Adventure First Aid in November 2009.  Nicky runs his own company, TECSEC media and brings with him a wealth of overseas travel experience as an expedition leader and as a cameraman, often working in hostile environments.  Nicky will be working on the Outdoor First Aid courses and offering a bespoke consultancy service to camera and production crews, assisting with planning overseas productions and developing crisis management plans.  Nicky has worked for the BBC in their Natural History Unit and Reuters amongst other high profile organisations.

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.

Dr Jane Nash joins Adventure First Aid as medical consultant and Cold Weather injury specialist.  Jane qualified in 1995 from Nottingham University medical School and has since gained extensive cold weather experience working for (amongst others) ALE (Antarctic Expeditions and Logistics) during the summer seasons down South.  Jane has also worked as an Expedition Doctor in China, Morocco and Nepal. Currently, Jane works as a locum GP in Cornwall and instructs on the Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support Course and Advanced Life Support course.  She also works as a voluntary consultant to Shelterbox.  Jane brings an immense knowledge real world experience to Adventure First Aid Ltd and will soon be delivering a Cold weather injury course and working as a guest medical advisor on the Overseas medical Intervention course.  Together, Jane and Guy are helping Shelterbox design and implement further medical training for their team leaders who look after the distribution of shleterboxes in disaster zones.

Hugh has a wide and varied background ranging from leading expeditions to running a deer farm on Dartmoor.  He is a qualified wildlife manager and has travelled to numerous countries on expeditions.

Martin qualified as a Doctor at the Royal Free in 1971. Having spent 26 years as a GP, he decided to take early retirement in 2001 to follow other interests. During his career he has been Medical Officer with Raleigh International in Chile in 2002, and with the British Schools Exploring Society in Greenland in 2003, and Svalbard in 2004.

Martin and his wife are keen sea kayakers and have paddled in Alaska, Florida and the Charlotte Islands amongst other places. Martin (not ever wishing to take the standard option!) decided to drive to Ephesus and back in a 1928 Austin 7 in 1974 to spend a year as a fisheries officer in Sierre Leone in 1965 with VSO.

With a passion for adventure travel and medicine, Martin is well placed to offer his experiences and knowledge on selected Expedition courses with Adventure First Aid. Even though he is now retired as a GP, Martin's aim is always to improve his skills in expedition and wilderness medicine. He is always trying out new ideas for the ultimate in improvised first aid kit; "If part of your rucksack or tent can be used as a splint, then why carry a specialist piece of kit designed for one job only?"

Nick brings a wealth of experience to Adventure First Aid. After 22 years in the Royal Marines, Nick qualified as a teacher. He has climbed from the age of 14, cutting his teeth on the sandstone edges near Tonbridge and has gone on to climb throughout the UK and Europe and as far afield as Japan, Australia and the Philippines.

He has led expeditions to Alaska and the Himalayas, and in 2003 was awarded the Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for his part in the rescue of a stricken climber on the North Ridge of Mount Everest.  Nick has lectured on leadership to a large number of corporate clients, using his experience both as a mountaineer and as an operational commander in the Royal Marines.

Nick also delivers Single Pitch Award training and assessments.

Qualifications: Mountain Instructor Certificate, International Mountain Leader, ?Scottish National Ski Council Mountain Ski Leader, First Aid Trainer.

Simon is an Ambulance Technician with Westcountry Ambulance Service.  Before joining the ambulance service he was a freelance outdoor trainer for 15 years. He has worked extensively as a development trainer with "Youth at Risk" groups. He is passionate about paddle sports and has extensive knowledge of white water rescue procedures and first aid issues associated with watersports. Simon has now started to Paraglide.  In between rushing around on blue lights and flying, he has time to deliver courses for Adventure First Aid, and update other trainers' clinical knowledge and skills.

Paul is a successful training consultant with extensive experience working within a variety of business sectors. Paul gained 15 year's experience as a Royal Marines Commando Physical Training Instructor specialising in Remedial Therapy and Outdoor Training before developing a progressive career in Human Resource and outdoor Development. He continues to lead expeditions globally and develop his own outdoor qualifications, skills and experience.  Paul joined Adventure First Aid early in 2009.

Paul also works as an Expedition Leader. He has lead long haul expeditions to North India Himalaya, crossing 3 x 5000m passes and co-ordinating and organising a high altitude helicopter rescue and evacuation of an injured member of the team, also to Venezuela, to the low Andes region, Chirikraya, Angel Falls, Cuidad Bolivar and Caracas.

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.

The latest addition to the Adventure First Aid team is Hannah who is taking over behind the scenes in the office. More info on Hannah to follow....