About - Cordillera Wilderness Medicine

Who We Are

Cordillera International, LLC is a wilderness medicine & technical rescue education company that offers a range of courses for medical professionals, outdoor enthusiasts, and wilderness guides. Our courses are designed to teach participants how to provide medical care in remote and wilderness settings, where access to traditional medical resources is limited or nonexistent.

Customized Training

We teach in accordance with YOUR needs. There is no one size fits all approach to learning and we don’t try to fit everyone into the same box.

Experienced Instructors

All of our instructors have a variety of real-world rescue experience and extensive backgrounds in experiential education. Our instructors utilize a balance of realistic hands-on simulations in conjunction with essential first aid knowledge.

Cutting Edge Curriculum

Our curriculum has been developed in collaboration with the Mountain Training Network (MTN), the most up-to-date wilderness medicine curriculum on the market. The MTN curriculum is 100% adherent to the guidelines set forth by the Wilderness Medical Society and goes above and beyond to ensure the content is logical and proves effective in real world situations. We provide what we believe to be the best possible resources available to our students.

When Spanish explorers and settlers arrived in the Americas, they used the term “cordillera” to describe the many mountain ranges they encountered, including the Andes in South America, the Rocky Mountains in North America, and the Sierra Madre in Mexico. Over time, the term “cordillera” became commonly used in the geologic and geographic fields to refer to any major mountain range or system of mountain ranges.
Today, “cordillera” is a widely recognized term that has been adopted into many languages. In English, it is often used to describe mountain ranges that run parallel to each other, as is the case with the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada.
Here at Cordillera International, we are inspired by mountain ranges like the Andes, Cascades, and Rockies. No matter how busy we are we always try to use the natural beauty around us to remind us of what’s important and use that frame of reference to define our teaching. We believe that medical and rescue education should not be a walled garden and should be as accessible as possible to everyone around the world!