Safety · First Aid · Avalanche

SURVIVAL & REMOTE FIRST AID

Every lesson in this library is free, for everyone, forever - because nobody should be priced out of this material. Remote trauma response, hypothermia and cold injuries, emergency comms, the backcountry packing system, and avalanche transceiver training you can run on an Australian beach before you ever fly out.

Curriculum
39 lessons
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37 lessons
Modules
8
Status
In production

Skills You Will Develop

Remote Trauma ResponseHypothermia & Cold InjuriesEmergency Comms & EvacuationBackcountry Packing SystemShelter, Fire & SignalsTransceiver SearchBeach Avalanche DrillsGroup Incident Command

Who It Is For

beginnerNever done a first aid course. Start here, then book the real thing - we can arrange it.
intermediateCity first aid done, but the backcountry version - hours from help - is a different sport.
advancedHeading into avalanche terrain overseas and want the search drilled before the plane.

Gear Covered

  • A real first aid kit (we show you what belongs in it)
  • Emergency shelter or bothy bag
  • Two transceivers, a probe and a shovel for the beach drill
  • A dry bag and a day pack
  • A mate - almost every drill needs two
Fifteen Years In

All 39 lessons below are written, and every one of them came out of riding this terrain rather than reading about it. Film is shot on the trips we run, so each lesson is captured where it is taught. Book a trip that runs this discipline and its full library comes with your booking.

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Want it coached, not just read?

We run in-person coaching in your home town before your trip - a fraction of what a day costs once the flights, hire and lift passes have started. Groups on the same trip split the travel.

Coaching for survival & remote first aid
Train with the best
Paradigm Medical Australia
Australia

Hands-on remote and wilderness first aid with working paramedics - live trauma scenarios, real gear, built for riders. We arrange sessions ahead of expedition departures.

Beach Transceiver Days · Unspoken Union
Australian beaches

Our guided avalanche search sessions on the dunes: real transceivers, scenario command, timed reps and honest debriefs - run before you fly out with us to Canada, Japan, Alaska or New Zealand.

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Full Curriculum

Remote First Aid
Around Aircraft: Helicopter and Fixed Wing Safety12 minRead freeThe Remote First Aid Mindset8 minRead freeTrauma: Bleeds, Breaks and the First Ten Minutes12 minRead freeHypothermia & Cold Injuries11 minRead freeWhen Help Is Hours Away: Comms & the Evacuation Call9 minRead freeCold Climate CPR: Warm and Dead10 minRead free
Survival & Packing
The Backcountry Packing System10 minRead freeShelter, Fire & Staying Findable10 minRead free
Avalanche Ready (from Australia)
Transceiver Basics: Send, Search, Trust9 minRead freeThe Beach Drill: Avalanche Search Practice Without Snow11 minRead free
Advanced Backcountry Judgement
Companion Rescue: The Whole Group Sequence11 minRead freeTerrain Traps and the Human Factor11 minRead freeReading Conditions: Forecasts, Observations and the Daily Plan11 minRead freeCrevasse and Glacier Travel Awareness13 minFullThe Overnight: Long Haul Casualty Care13 minFull
Avalanche: The Powder Hunter's Course
The Powder Hunter's Premise13 minRead freeThe Avalanche Problem Types13 minRead freeTerrain Choice: The Variable You Own13 minRead freeThe Snowpack You Cannot See13 minRead freeSlope Cutting: Ski Cuts and Sled Cuts13 minRead freeGroup Travel Protocols13 minRead freeBuilding the Day: Plan, Decision Points and Debrief13 minRead freeBeyond the Basics: What AST 2 Level Adds13 minRead freeTest Slopes: Reading Snow by Riding It13 minRead freeTwo Slides, Two Survivors: What Actually Saved Them13 minRead freeTree Wells: The Hazard That Does Not Need an Avalanche13 minRead freeCaught Out: Shelter, Snow Caves and the Unplanned Night13 minRead freeWhiteout on a Glacier: Navigating When You Cannot See13 minRead freeThe Trailhead Check: Radios, Transceivers and the Two Minutes That Matter13 minRead freeThe Moment You Reach the Face: First Aid on a Buried Casualty13 minRead freeAdvanced Search: Field Lines, Lanes and Where the Minutes Actually Go13 minRead freeAdvanced Rescue: Where the Minutes Really Go, and How to Take Them Back15 minRead freeKnow Your Transceiver: What Each Brand Does When It Matters14 minRead freeThe Clock: Burial to Fresh Air15 minRead free
Crew Watch: The Free Backup App
Crew Watch: What It Is, and What It Will Never Do12 minRead freeRunning Crew Watch on a Trip Day11 minRead free
Backcountry Equipment
Avalanche Airbags: Canister, Fan and the Second Deployment13 minRead freeAvaLung, Beacons and Knowing What Each Thing Does13 minRead free
Avalanche Equipment
Testing Your Avalanche Equipment, Especially the Airbag11 minRead free

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These sports kill people. Not rarely, and not only the reckless - every season they kill riders who were experienced, fit, well equipped and doing everything properly. That is the honest starting position and everything else we do sits on top of it.

The mountain does not know who you are. Snow releases on people with twenty years in it. Machines roll on riders who have done that line a hundred times. Water, rock, trees and other people are indifferent to how good you have become. Every time you go out you are accepting a real chance that it goes wrong, and no amount of skill removes that chance - it only changes the odds.

What that looks like in these disciplines, plainly: avalanche burial and asphyxiation, being crushed under a machine, head and spinal injuries from falls and impacts, drowning, hypothermia, and collisions with trees, rocks and other riders.

We work in remote country, so distance is part of it. A serious injury usually means hours before a helicopter can reach you, and weather sometimes means no helicopter at all. Help being close is not a feature of any trip we run.

This is exactly why we prepare the way we do. Training before you ride, gear standards, minimum party sizes, people who know the ground, and a willingness to call a day off. All of it is about improving your odds and making the group capable of looking after itself. None of it makes anything safe, none of it makes anyone competent, and passing our training is not a qualification. Anybody who tells you they can make this safe is selling something.

Everyone out there is relying on everyone else having been honest about what they can actually do. If reading this has made you hesitate, that is worth listening to rather than talking yourself out of.

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