Safety | Medical | Equipment | Training

Operating in the backcountry comes with its own set of unique challenges. If you’re headed into the Himalaya on a trekking expedition, looking for equipment recommendations for a weekend adventure, or you’re shooting for an extended period of time on location, having the insight and skill of trained professionals on your side is priceless when it comes to risk management. Wounded Bear Medicine provides consulting services to help identify risk, mitigate risk, and help facilitate a smooth operation in the backcountry. If you need advice on a gear purchase, you need a full team of on-site standby safety medics, or something in-between, we have the resources, network, tools, and know-how to help you pull it off.


Production Risk management

Productions and shoots in challenging and remote outdoor locations present many challenges that often lead to injuries to cast, or crew. We know production schedules are tight and keeping everyone safe and healthy is critical to pulling off a successful shoot.

Wounded Bear Medicine’s Safety and Medical Team Leaders help productions assess and safely execute high risk on location productions.

Safety Leads offer pre and in production services:

  • Pre-production risk assessments

  • Cast pre-production medical screening

  • Location risk evaluation and risk mitigation

  • Emergency action and response planning for productions

  • Real time safety briefings and education for cast and crew

  • incident command and response coordination

  • Injury evacuation coordination with our field safety team and/or the production crew

  • International evacuation coordination

Integrated on location Safety and Medical Staff

For complex local or international on location productions our team of Field Safety Medics specialize in embedding with cast and crew no matter how rugged, remote and challenging the locations. Having dedicated safety staff right with field producers, camera, sound, and talent increase the likelihood that cast and crew will stay healthy, injury free and as safe as possible. Our goal is to minimize interruptions from injuries and keep cast and crew in good condition to finish the job.

Production “Field Safety and Medical Staff” services:

  • Cast and Crew pre-departure health baseline assessment

  • Cast and Crew on location injury prevention and health monitoring

  • Cast safety briefings pre-departure and on location

  • In field weather, and dynamic risk monitoring

  • Timely emergency response in delayed care settings

  • Ongoing care of minor injuries for cast and crew

  • Predator attack protection and response services available

  • Personal protection services available

Remote Medics for TV and Film


Ice rescue technician standby service

Technical Rescue Standby

Wounded Bear Medicine provides technical rescue standby and consulting services for film and industry in a variety of technical rescue disciplines including:

  • Swiftwater Rescue and Standby

  • Swiftwater Boat Standby

  • Technical Rope Access and Extraction

  • Avalanche

  • Static Surface Ice Rescue

  • Other technical locations and settings


With over 100 years of combined outdoor, guiding, and SAR experience, the Wounded Bear Team have tried and tested a wide range of equipment. This has helped us create efficient systems for a variety of environments and expedition types. Wounded Bear Medicine can provide outdoor adventurers, travel and tour companies, and tv and film productions and set design with:

  • Equipment advice and recommendations

  • Equipment sourcing by brand or type

  • Maintenance recommendations for optimum performance

  • Equipment rental options for a variety of activities and locations

  • Training on proper equipment use

Technical Outdoor & Safety Equipment Consulting

Room with shelfs full of technical rescue and outdoor equipment

Set medics provide on location assessment of production staff

Medical Staff Sourcing

Wounded Bear Medicine can provide training for all your outdoor adventure needs. If you are looking for knowledge, skills or certification, Wounded Bear Medicine offers a variety of training. If what you need is outside of our expertise we will connect you with quality training from one of our professional partners.

Swimmer Jumps into River during a swiftwater course

Training Services

Wounded Bear Medicine sources medical personnel to best suit your needs and location. Trekking in Nepal? Guiding clients internationally? Just need a quick consult for your weekend backpacking trip? We have a network of medical providers with high levels of outdoor and travel medical expertise who can accompany you or answer your questions.

  • Emergency Room Physicians

  • Emergency Room Nurses

  • Nurse Practitioners

  • Physicians Assistants

  • Paramedics

  • Wilderness Emergency Medical Technicians

  • Wilderness First Responders