Team Leader - John Mitchell

 

Whilst studying for my first degree in Biomedical Science at University of Aberdeen, I grasped every available opportunity to explore foreign cultures by backpacking around Tunisia and India, as well as interrailing for a month around europe, in whatever free time was given to me. All of these trip involved extensive planning and co-ordination, and often involved language barriers.

 

After joining the Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) I have been on several trips and attended a multitude of expedition training days along with extensive critical wilderness emergency care training. This is something I have continued to be a part of in my current degree studying Medicine at Aberdeen and am now the WMS Expedition Officer.

 

Through my Biomed degree I have gained an in depth knowledge of how to organise and conduct a successful experiment, as well as what is required to make the results publishable. 

 

Although my background is primarily medicine and science based, I have substantial media training having done 2 weeks of work experience around various stations at BBC television centre. This involved both field and editorial work.

 

This expedition will push my boundaries as I have never undertaken an adventure of this duration, over this terrain and of this scientific nature. In my experience potential adventure is everywhere, you just have to be willing to grasp it.