Nick Wright is a paramedic who lives in the Lake District and has specialised in delivering remote area healthcare for over 20 years. He has worked across the world including Namibia, Mongolia, Patagonia, Norway, Switzerland and Dominica covering extreme sport events and on location filming. Nick has been a member of a mountain rescue team spanning two decades.
Nick also fulfils a major incident tactical/strategic command role and is regional Medical Officer for LDSAMRA. Nick has previously worked on a helicopter service, providing a repatriation role to offshore oil rig workers exhibiting symptoms of Covid-19.
Nick is privileged to have edited the Remote Area Trauma Care chapter for the NAEMT’s Prehospital Trauma Life Support UK textbook on two editions. He has also co-authored the Rural Healthcare textbook. He holds an MSc in Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine as well as PGCert in Academic Practice (FHEA). He is currently working towards the Fellowship of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.
In his spare time Nick is a private pilot and enjoys climbing, mountaineering, cycling and running both at home and abroad.
Nick holds the Mountain Leader qualification.
Hannah Kittson is a Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine based in the Lake District. She has been involved in providing medical cover/consultancy to endurance sports events and expeditions in the UK and around the world, including working for BBC Sport Relief in Namibia in 2020. She has worked across jungle, desert, mountain and arctic environments.
She holds the Diploma in Mountain Medicine, a Diploma in Travel Health, has completed the taught component of the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and is about to finish a Masters in Sports Medicine, Exercise and Health. Hannah is a Mountain Leader and is an aspirant International Mountain Leader and particularly enjoys mountaineering and walking.
Andy Cumpstey is an anaesthetist and intensive care doctor at University Hospital Southampton and an experienced mountaineering, sailing and kayaking instructor who loves getting away to remote and difficult to reach places.
After training in medicine at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, he completed his PhD at the University of Southampton, taking lessons learnt from high altitude research studies in the Alps and the Himalaya to improve how oxygen therapy is used in patients with critical illness or undergoing major surgery. He was awarded the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia’s national research award for this work in 2022.
He is full a member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors and holds the Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor (MCI) award (the highest rock climbing instructor award in the UK) as well as a number of sailing, white water canoeing and sea kayaking instructor certificates.
An experienced expedition doctor and guide, Andy has looked after commercial, charity, youth and celebrity groups both on the water and in the mountains all over the world. Expedition highlights have included sea kayaking the length of the longest sea fjord system on Earth, hot air ballooning over the Namibian Desert and helping Alex Honnold and Hazel Findlay make a new 4000ft first ascent of Ingmikortilaq – one of the tallest sea cliffs in the world and rising straight out of a fjord full of house-sized ice bergs.
