Author: Chris Van Tilburg MD

Telling Stories of 100 years of Mountain Rescue

Chris Van Tilburg MD October 2, 2025 No Comments

Crisis on Mount Hood: Stories from a Hundred Years of Mountain Rescue  Ten years ago, when the Hood River Crag Rats turned 90 years old, we had a small celebration for the community. That spawned an idea in my brain. I was a writer before I was a doctor and a rescue mountaineer. I’d written

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Body Recoveries in Wilderness Medicine

Chris Van Tilburg MD January 1, 2018 No Comments

By Chris Van Tilburg, M.D.; Chair, MRA MedCom; Crag Rats, Hood River, Oregon Body recovery in mountain rescue is an important task for wilderness first responders. We handle recoveries differently than rescues of live persons because they are usually less urgent and sometimes have a forensic component. My mountain rescue team, Crag Rats, of Hood

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