Category: Wilderness

Introduction Nature is a beautiful thing that should be explored and persevered for the future generation, it does come with its challenges such as patients getting injured and exposure to elements in the environment that can produce many types of emergencies. Emergency practitioners must be ready to recognize and manage these conditions. They can do…

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a novel that describes the story of Christopher Mccandless. Born into an upper-middle-class family in Virginia, Christopher attended Emory University and embarks on a journey to find meaning and freedom. It takes him to Alaska where he eventually dies in an old bus from starvation. Christophers story is…

In 1980 the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) in northern Alaska in order to create a safe place for animals and plants where they would be able to thrive without human interactions. However, if we were to drill on this land we would not only be destroying the environment even more than it already is.…