I was a GP in Cockermouth, Cumbria for 27 years where I was also a member of the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team and the Workington and Cockermouth Accident and Emergency mobile team. In my practice I taught medical students from three medical schools and trained GP registrars, and for several years was the GP Postgraduate Tutor for West Cumbria. I was a keen mountain walker and rock and ice climber, and my medical and climbing background led me to take part in Himalayan climbing expeditions. It was on the first of these expeditions, when we travelled overland to India by Land Rover that my interest in travel medicine began to develop. I subsequently operated a travel clinic and yellow fever vaccination centre in my practice. When the Glasgow Diploma in Travel Medicine was developed I joined its first ever cohort of students and was fortunate to win first prize, being subsequently invited to return to teach on the course. Later I developed and ran for several years a distance learning course in travel medicine at St Martin’s College, Lancaster, now part of the University of Cumbria, and have taught on several other courses on mountain and expedition medicine.. I was a founder member of the BGTHA and was for many years a member of its Executive Committee, setting up its first website, editing Travelwise and spending three years chairing the Association. When I ended my climbing career I began to lead adventure holidays, with activities such as mountain trekking and white water rafting, and medical study tours to a wide variety of countries in Asia, South America and to a lesser extent Africa. Having retired from that I am now Hon Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow teaching global health to medical students. The rest of my time is spent in enjoying books, music, opera, good food and good wine, tending my cottage garden on the northern fringes of my beloved Lake District fells and taking the occasional walk on those fells.