WHS, founded in Jan. 1996, is the First Student Chapter of the Wilderness Medical Society . We are run and organized by students of the allied health disciplines and our activities include lectures, trainings, workshops,and trips to national conferences on subjects that relate health issues to wilderness environments. Awesome photos from Everest, including physiology of acute mountain sickness, high altitude pulmonary edema, high altitude cerebral edema, frostbite. Students and members of the general community are welcome to participate in our events.
Lectures are FREE and workshops have low participation fees.
All Photos are copyright of Ben Rosner unless otherwise specified.