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Kang Hua

Kang is Alpine guide and instructor. Kang has lived in Tibet for 5 years where he worked for Tibet mountaineering guide school, as an instructor and expedition organizer. Then he worked for China Mountaineering Development Institute 5 years, as instructor. Now he lives in Beijing, travel and climbing around China. He loves backcountry skiing and climbing. 

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Rachel Jamieson

Rachel is an Advanced Care Paramedic working in rural Alberta.  She is devoted to practicing in remote and austere environments.  She teaches all levels of courses including WEMS, WALS, and WME.  Rachel is an avid adventurer who has spent countless hours guiding multi-day whitewater adventures in remote areas of Ontario, Quebec, and the American Southwest.  She also spent numerous years as a volunteer ski patroller at Castle Mountain Ski Resort.  Today she can be found balancing the demands of pre-hospital care with healthy backcountry adventures; hiking, skiing, paddling, mountain biking and climbing in her beloved back-yard: the Canadian Rockies.  Rachel thoroughly enjoys teaching and brings an infectious enthusiasm and energy to all her courses and students.

Charles-Antoine Wild

Ce sont ses passions pour le plein-air et le voyage qui ont mené Charles au cours des dernières années vers le domaine de la sécurité en terrain avalancheux et du ski hors piste. Certifié W-EMT, sa compréhension des enjeux en région éloignée, et sa volonté de permettre à d’autres passionnés de pratiquer leurs sports dans …

Evie Marcolini

Evie is medical faculty at Yale University Medical School. As a physician she divides her clinical time between the emergency department as well as the surgical and neuroscience intensive care units. She is also involved in research, teaches trauma and critical care locally. She is the faculty advisor for Yale’s Wilderness Medical Interest Group. Evie has been an invited instructor to Egypt, India, Greece, Vietnam, and Argentina. Prior to becoming a physician, she worked as a paramedic/firefighter for 6 years. Evie has been an instructor for Outward Bound, a full time ski patroller, and is a member of Mahoosuc Mountain Search and Rescue, and Franklin County Search and Rescue. She enjoys rock and ice climbing, mountaineering and skiing, and has climbed extensively in the lower 48; other expeditions have included the Dolomites, New Zealand Southern Alps and the Alaska Range including Denali. Evie began working for Wilderness Medical Associates in 1992. She splits her time between New Haven, Connecticut and Greenwood, Maine.

Jeff Baierlein

Jeff Baierlein has worked as an EMT with ambulance services in Washington State and Arizona, and served as team leader, member and trainer with technical, high-angle and backcountry Search and Rescue teams in New Hampshire, Arizona, and Washington.  Jeff has led mountaineering, backpacking, rock climbing, kayaking, canoeing, canyoneering, caving, and sailing trips in the US and internationally with a variety of organizations since 1987. Jeff is the Director of Viristar (www.viristar.com), providing consulting and training for outdoor programs.  He has been the Executive Director of the Boojum Institute for Experiential Education and the Executive Director of the Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center, and has served in leadership roles with other outdoor education, field science and environmental education nonprofits.  Jeff is an expert witness regarding wilderness safety and outdoor education, and Vice Chair of the Washington Advisory Committee of the Northwest Outward Bound School Board of Directors.  Jeff has been a Board member of the Association for Experiential Education, the Northwest Environmental Education Council, Prescott College, and the Community Foundation’s Idyllwild Community Fund, as well as a member of the Washington State Governor’s Council on Environmental Education.  Jeff has been teaching for Wilderness Medical Associates since 1997.

Julie Harjung

Julie is a NYS Forest Ranger stationed in the Adirondack Mountains. She is a volunteer EMT and firefighter for the local fire department and teaches CPR & EMT classes locally for the NYS Department of Health. If she has any free time she likes to hike, camp, canoe, and ski. Luckily, all those fun things can also be done while "working".

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