We’re full steam ahead planning this year’s MAX expedition and return to the lesser visited and stunning M’Goun range in the Atlas Mountains. The teaching team is now confirmed. WMT’s Barry Roberts is the expedition leader. He has been to Morocco 20+ times. Barry is a passionate mountain man and into climbing, ski touring and paragliding. He has about 50 expeditions on his CV, mostly to mountainous regions, including first ascents on skis in Greenland and reaching the summit of Everest. The medical instructor is Dr Paddy Morgan – Dip. Mountain Medicine holder (and lecturer), expedition and air ambulance doctor, anaesthetic consultant and Medical Director of His Majesty’s Coastguard. Both instructors are contributors to the OUP Handbook of Expedition & Wilderness Medicine. Barry and Paddy have worked together for 20+ years in the UK, Chamonix and Morocco.
If you missed the newsletter you can read it here. In it we are thrilled to announce the appointment to the role of WMT Medical Adviser to Dr Amel Alfulaij.
Introducing Dr Amel Alfulaij BA (Hons), MBChB, DTM&H London based Amel has been a GP for 10 years though her first degree was in European Studies and Italian. She speaks Italian, Spanish and Arabic. As a GP she specialises in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes. In parallel to her role as a GP, Amel has doggedly pursued a commitment to humanitarian medicine including completing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine in ’22. Amel spent the last year working for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontier), first in Tripoli, Lebanon and then in Mosul, Iraq. Both postings involved supporting clinical programmes for refugees in dangerous and complex situations. In London, Amel continues to provide clinical support to refugees and asylum seekers. She is currently studying towards the Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine with a view to undertaking future overseas humanitarian postings.
Highlights of Amel’s expedition experience include being an expedition doctor with Raleigh International and Operation Wallacea (Honduras and Madagascar). With Raleigh, in Costa Rica, she led an arduous 3 week 210 km trek and then helped manage the challenging expatriation of all personal when Covid shut down the expedition. (Amel is pictured in salmon coloured trousers below.)
Outside of medicine, Amel’s passions are many and varied, and include competitive tennis, surfing, snowboarding, scuba diving, long distance cycling and hut to hut trekking in the Alps. Amel has been a familiar face to WMT since 2018 when she attended our Chamonix summer medic course and later joined us on the Morocco expedition. She has since taught on Explorer courses so she knows what WMT’s mission is. Amel brings to WMT a wealth of experience garnered through humanitarian medicine, adventure travel and expedition medicine and we are delighted she will be working more closely with us.
We’re going back for a third Tromso ski touring expedition! Join us for this brilliant bucket list ski touring trip. Download the detailed DOSSIER HERE for full details, fees, staffing and glorious pictures of our guests skiing in ’24 and ’25. Only 6 places. There’s a short online questionnaire to submit to apply to join us – link in the dossier.
The latest newsletter is out and it’s packed with course dates up to July 2026 and much more. Read it HERE for Mountain Medicine on Skis (Chamonix) details and dates, June Explorer course dates and news and photos from WMT’s staff summer adventures.
Happy new year!! Kick off the year with purpose. Join us in Chamonix for Expedition Medicine. Read this SPECIAL INVITATION for exciting details. 5 days of KISS! Knowledge – Inspiration – Skills – Snowsports.
The bumper autumn newsletter is out! Read it here. It’s packed with upcoming winter Chamonix course info, a Morocco expedition report and much more. Pictured below is our base camp chalet for Mountain Medicine on Skis 20-27 January. Following this is Expedition Medicine 4-8 March. See you there!?
The summer newsletter is out and packed with updates, winter course details and a great alumna story from Dr Zoe Kay (pictured below) on her first expedition medicine job on the Inca Trail. And as always the newsletter it loaded with lovely pictures of very happy delegates learning and having fun in beautiful, wild places. Read it here.
