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A WFR graduate recalls responding to a hypothermic patient while stuck in a hut in Norway's mountains.

Choose an outdoor gap year! Gap year parent Eugene Buchanan writes about his daughter's surprising decision to take a wilderness-based gap year.

3 days into guiding a 9-day trip on the Olympic Peninsula, my colleagues and I noticed that a 65 year old client was showing more fatigue than we thought normal.

Walking through the Exhibitor Reception the first evening of the WRMC, I met and mingled with a lot of folks dedicated to that same goal of being a leader in crisis situations.

23 days, 12 students, 4 instructors, and 1 epic adventure. This fall, I participated in an Outdoor Educator course with NOLS in Lander, Wyoming.

Check out these top 5 gap year tips and discover the transformative power of outdoor gap year programs.

WRMC participants from No Barriers reflect on the value of risk in learning.

Learn the truth behind popular myths about Leave No Trace principles.

Meet the author of the book A Worthy Expedition: The History of NOLS.

Growing up as a city slicker, I had minimal experience with backpacking and the outdoors.

September 12 kicked off the 2016 NOLS Wilderness Medicine Staff Meeting, our annual gathering at the Wyss Campus in Lander, Wyo. Read on for highlights!

Number 1, You will remember songs that you have not heard in forever.

Len Zanni, co-owner of Big Agnes, Inc. and NOLS grad, talked with us about what he’s learned from NOLS and from his years of working in the outdoor industry.

Sam Glinsmann’s Semester in New Zealand was with NOLS, which aims to teach participants leadership skills in the wilderness.

Best Time to Take a Gap Year: Discover how any year can be transformed into an impactful and transformative gap year.

Longtime instructor shares stories from the most diverse NOLS Wilderness Medicine course she has ever taught.

The value of getting outside your comfort zone.

Stand out from the crowd by talking about NOLS on your resume

An incident commander reviews a complex cave rescue

Both my boys went on NOLS trips when they were 15, spending five weeks in the Wyoming wilderness. With bears. For five weeks, I had no contact with them.

My Playground, My Dad, My Leadership Voice

5 Things You Learn from Climbing (That Also Matter in Real Life)

NOLS alum Erica Levine Weber takes her experience on a NOLS semester and turns it into a lifetime of international travel with her family, taking her daughter to 30 countries before her first birthday.

Why Wildlands Studies Attends the WRMC