We are not qualified to give medical advice here, only practical advice.

It is no use having a First Aid Kit, Emergency Whistle, Bivvi Bag or any other equipment in your rucksack if you don’t know how to use it.

There are many things that a First Aid Kit do not include – skills for resuscitation, treatments for shock, heart attacks, burns, fractures, hypothermia to name but a few, which we hope you never have to experience.

But if you do, isn’t it better to be calm and know what to do, rather than panic and put yours or others lives at risk?

So, if the outdoor life is new to you, please enrol in a Mountain Safety and First Aid course. There are many advertised in the back of magazines, and the cost is long forgotten, while the skills and confidence remain.

It is better to know it
and not need it,
than need it
and not know it!