Extreme medicine

MBA Trustee Juls Stodel shares her own tale of rescue in the hopes it’ll ease the stigma felt by a walker cragfast in shame a year after calling on Mountain Rescue

WHEN Hurricane Melissa struck the Caribbean last October, it did so with almost unprecedented force. The third-most intense Atlantic hurricane of all time roared in with 185mph winds and devastating f

The heat is real now. Intense sun from above and the road radiating heat up from below. My tri-suit feels like a microwave bag, stuffy and claustrophobic. I’m a pale, middle-aged, Scotsman. I wonder i

As the sun beat down on the ancient sands of the Namib Desert in south west Africa, former snowboarder Ioana Barbu’s face cracked out a huge smile. And she had every right to be beaming. The 37-year-o

Emin’s newfound happiness These days, life is far ...

It was the Marathon des Sables, a 250K across the Sahara Desert in Morocco. It’s self-supported, meaning you have to carry all your own food and mandatory gear. Temperatures reach 48°C during the day