Wilderness Images Wilderness & Environmental Medicine   Wilderness & Environmental Medicine  Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 55-56 (March 2005) DOI: 10.1580/1080-6032(2005)16[55:WI]2.0.CO;2 Copyright © 2005 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Martinique Mountain Rescue Training Session Martinique Mountain Rescue Training Session. Xavier Ledoux's photograph of a mountain rescue training exercise in Rivière Mitan, Martinique (French Caribbean), tied for first place in the 2004 WEM Photo Contest. Dr. Ledoux is an anesthesiologist at St. Martin Hostpital (French West Indies) and mountain rescue physician in the French Alps. In the French rescue system, medical care is provided on-site. Martinique is mountainous with a variety of canyons and canyoneering is increasing in popularity. Specially trained and equipped physicians take part in most of the canyoneering rescue operations. In tropical mountains, helicopters are no or little help, so local rescuers must be prepared to accomplish long and difficult terrestrial rescue operations. Photo © Xavier Ledoux, MD (in color online). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2005 16, 55-56DOI: (10.1580/1080-6032(2005)16[55:WI]2.0.CO;2) Copyright © 2005 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions

Sunset on Nuptse, by Luanne Freer, MD, Bozeman, MT, was in a 3-way tie for second place in the WEM 2004 Photo Contest. Dr Freer is the Medical Director of the Himalayan Rescue Association's Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic. Nup-tse in Tibetan for “west-peak.” It is located in the Everest Region just southwest of Nepal in the world's greatest mountain range, the Great Himalayas. It was first climbed on May 16, 1961, by British expeditioner Dennis Davis and Sherpa Tashi. Photo © Luanne Freer, MD (in color online). Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 2005 16, 55-56DOI: (10.1580/1080-6032(2005)16[55:WI]2.0.CO;2) Copyright © 2005 Wilderness Medical Society Terms and Conditions