The first teaching manual ever for the Wilderness First Responder course, this title represents the cutting edge in medical training for wilderness rescue and self care. The schools affiliated with Tilton's program include the Wilderness Medicine Institute, a subsidiary of NOLS, and SOLO.
Offering essential skills for emergency situations, this guide provides clear, step-by-step instructions complemented by 450 full-color photos. It covers a wide range of common injuries and illnesses, teaching readers how to recognize, manage, and prevent them. Key topics include CPR, bleeding and shock, spine and head injuries, fractures, and allergic reactions. With a focus on practical techniques, it equips individuals with the necessary tools to effectively respond to medical emergencies and save lives.
Wilderness medicine expert and Backpacker magazine columnist Buck Tilton covers every step needed for the best hiking and backpacking experience.
This comprehensive guide demystifies knot-making with over 400 vibrant photographs that provide clear, step-by-step instructions for various knots. It covers essential knots used in popular activities such as camping, boating, climbing, and fishing, as well as decorative projects. The book includes a wide range of stoppers, bends, loops, and hitches, ensuring readers can quickly master the knots they need for any situation. It's an invaluable resource for anyone looking to enhance their knot-tying skills.
Knot-making is simpler than ever. This revised easy-to-follow guide, published in partnership with Outward Bound, includes information on using knots in your favorite outdoor activities.
This book provides principles for dealing with many serious emergencies, and a few common problems, when a doctor is more than an hour away.
How to Recognize, Treat, and Prevent Emergencies in the Backcountry
Focusing on backcountry emergencies, this comprehensive guide offers in-depth knowledge on recognizing, treating, and preventing medical issues in remote settings. Authored by wilderness expert Buck Tilton alongside a team of medical professionals, the updated text draws on over 150 years of combined experience in wilderness medicine and rescue. It serves as an essential resource for wilderness educators, trip leaders, guides, and search and rescue teams, making it invaluable for anyone engaged in outdoor activities away from immediate medical assistance.
The Book That Makes Dying by Heart Attack Seem Downright Boring By living a normal, boring life, you have an excellent chance of becoming yet another statistic on the list of leading causes of death. Of course, the process can be accelerated a bit by forgoing exercise, eating poorly, smoking, drinking heavily, and worrying. Buck Tilton prefers to ponder the alternatives. In How to Die in the Outdoors, he presents 150 more interesting and unique ways to perish, from snake bite, elephant foot, rhino horn, and more! With witty prose, Tilton describes not only the details of how you can die-some intriguingly gory, yet all based on facts-but also ways to avoid death should a life-threatening situation arise before you're ready to leave this world for whatever afterlife there may be.
Maine is certainly an exciting place, with a plethora of outdoor activities to pursue. It's also generally a safe place and most of those activities can be done by those with little to no experience. Don't let that lull you into a false sense of security however, there are numerous ways to perish in Maine's outdoors. Now, renowned wilderness medicine expert and storyteller Buck Tilton casts his glance on these dangers. Tongue planted firmly in cheek, Tilton takes a humorous look at just how you might die in Maine, and what he finds runs the gamut from downright deadly to uncomfortable, but unlikely to kill, to just plain silly. Some of nature's methods are distinctly possible without proper precautions, from rogue waves to rip currents to great white sharks. Others amount to simply wishing you were dead, like stepping on a sea urchin. And others cross the boundary into the nonsensical, such as being singled out by Sasquatch. Broken into sections depending on severity and likeliness of actually dying, all the entries are told with a storyteller's ear for humor and whimsy. Many are illustrated in full color by Maine cartoonist Mike Lynch.