SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--To help prepare hikers, campers and others for outdoor adventures, REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.), today announced new Wilderness First Aid courses, available in REI ...

The Wilderness Medicine Institute taught 12,165 students last year in 46 states and a dozen countries. More than 1,100 of them were taught in Wyoming. The institute's director and cofounder, Melissa ...

SEATTLE, Aug. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- REI Co-op and National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) are launching a first-of-its-kind wilderness preparedness course offering Wilderness Safety Training to ...

A few years ago, I was leading a hiking trip in a national park when one client and a team leader sled down from the park’s tallest sand dune (a common, typically enjoyable activity in the park). But ...

In 2007, after fighting a fire in Arizona, one of Zach Hartshorn's fellow firefighters wandered into a field of thick brush. The local search and rescue didn’t find him until early the next morning ...