What makes a medic go BASE jumping? Offering more reflections than answers, Trauma Fellow BASE #1863 tells us about his life-changing experiences in the most extreme of sports.

GP registrar Dr Hannah Fox has spent the last year working in palliative medicine in Kolkata, India. In a city were health inequalities between rich and poor are stark, Hannah shares her experiences of palliative care on both side of the coin.

What does it take to practice medicine in the coldest, darkest corner of our planet? We interviewed Alex Kumar and Beth Healey, European Space Agency doctors at Concordia station about darkness, hypoxia and life at -80C.

GP trainee Katie Sellens swapped locuming in the UK for island-life by volunteering as a medic for Operation Wallacea in remote Indonesia.

Jim Moonie and Sarah Abraham finished Core Training, left the English ‘summer’ and travelled to New Zealand to work as doctors for the ski fields around Queenstown. Let’s be honest – this is a dream job.

We get emails every day from readers asking how to get into expedition medicine. Tom Yeoman tells us of his first expedition, and the steps he took that led to the summit of Kilimanjaro.

Laura Gilchrist’s fortnight of dolphins, salsa, sunsets and sign language. Practicing jungle medicine aboard the Amazon Hope.

Sav Wijesingha’s video of the AAGBI Safer Anaesthesia From Education (SAFE) course in Madagascar this year.

Joanne Eagleson on taking the winding path through training, escaping to the lowland rain forests of Borneo as a medic with Raleigh International.

Colin Baird cycles the route of the Tour de France as doctor for the ‘Tour de Force’, a charity ride that stays seven days ahead of the pros and finishes up on the Champs Elysees.