Imagine this: You are three hours into a beautiful walk. You are miles from the car, the mobile signal is dead, and the clouds are dropping.
Suddenly, your friend slips. A sickening crunch. They can’t stand up. Then the rain starts.
What do you do in the next 10 minutes?
Do you panic? Do you run for help? Do you know which item in your rucksack can save their life before the cold sets in?
Most walkers think, “It won’t happen to me.” But the hills don’t care about your optimism. When the adrenaline hits and the weather turns, you don’t rise to the occasion—you sink to the level of your training.
The Problem with Standard First Aid
You might have done a First Aid course at work. You learned how to do CPR on a plastic doll in a warm, carpeted room.
That is not outdoor safety.
In the hills, the ambulance isn’t 8 minutes away—it’s 4 hours away. You don’t have a defibrillator; you have a half-eaten sandwich and a whistle. The rules are different out here. You are the doctor, the navigator, and the rescue team all rolled into one.
What This Course Is
This is not a boring classroom lecture on bandages. This is a practical, no-nonsense guide to handling chaos.
I am going to teach you the specific, battle-tested protocols used by Mountain Leaders to turn a potential disaster into a managed situation. We are going to strip away the medical jargon and focus on the actions that actually save lives.
What You Will Learn
In this straightforward course, you will master:
- The “Kit Audit”: Why half of your shop-bought First Aid kit is useless junk—and the one cheap item you need to add immediately.
- The “Heel Lock” Trick: How to lace a boot to turn it into a rigid cast, allowing you to walk out on a sprained ankle.
- The “STOP” Rule: How to override your brain’s panic response and take control of the scene.
- The Communication Hacks: Why dialling 999 might fail, and the “Text-to-Register” service that works when you have almost no signal.
- Environmental Survival: Exactly how to cross a river safely (and when to turn back), and what to do if you are caught in a lightning storm.
- The Helicopter Handover: How to signal a pilot without blinding them, and why you must never wave “Hello.”
Who Is This For?
- Hikers & Ramblers who want to explore further but worry about the “What Ifs.”
- Solo Walkers who need to rely entirely on themselves.
- Group Leaders (even informal ones) who feel responsible for their friends and family.
The Promise
I can’t promise you won’t ever get injured. But I can promise that if you do, you won’t be helpless.
You will replace anxiety with a plan. You will stop carrying a rucksack full of fears and start carrying the skills to handle them.
Don’t rely on luck. Rely on knowledge.
£3 from every sale of this course goes to mountain rescue services across the UK — the volunteers who turn out at three in the morning for people they’ve never met.
⚠️ Important Safety Warning: Read This First Parts of this course have first aid training material in them, it is designed as a memory aid and a reference tool, not a substitute for professional medical training. Reading about a procedure is very different from performing it under pressure. We strongly recommend that all hill walkers attend a practical, in-person Outdoor First Aid (REC) course to build muscle memory and competence. The authors and publishers accept no liability for any actions taken, or consequences arising, from the use or misuse of the information in this course. Use this advice at your own risk and always prioritise professional help.
Every lesson in this course is written and complete — you can start working through it the moment you join. Video versions are being filmed and will appear inside the lessons as they’re ready, at no extra cost.
