MAINE PUBLIC • September 16, 2024
Acadia Mountain Guides Climbing School is partnering with Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to offer a new mountain medicine program. The program is the first of its kind on the East Coast, and will include courses on wilderness rescue, mountain skills and emergency medicine. The goal is to bring medical and rescue skills into one program, said Acadia Mountain Guides owner Jon Tierney. A mountain guide, nurse and paramedic, Tierney has seen firsthand how rescue situations affect care.