As part of our aim to help support people planning their own expeditions we are developing this online resources page. It includes information about other companies, courses or books which we recommend.

This page contains downloadable versions of our regular newsletter Fieldnews along with other articles about our courses or with other relevant information.

If you have other suggestions please send them along (contact us)…

FIELDNEWS
Fieldskills newsletter

• Feb newsletter 10: Arctic adventures, zero carbon round the world and courses for Universities and major expedition companies already in 2010 click here to download
• Nov newsletter 09: Courses for deserts and the new Emergency First Aid at Work course, Polar expeditions and nocturnal primates in Borneo click here to download
• June newsletter 09: New UK courses in Off-site safety management, pushing the boundaries in Borneo and blood, sweat and tears in Namibia click here to download
• Apr newsletter 09: Busy training season at UK Universities, Rock climbing and Mountain Biking in Borneo, volunteering in Peru and riding the length of 6 continents click here to download
• Jan newsletter 09: Peruvian community minded research, fieldwork safety training at Leeds University, eco-canopy holidays and new water safety course click here to download
• November newsletter 08: Ropeskills rigging, Borneo international marathon, Amazon expeditions and bumble bees click here to download
• June newsletter 08: Focus on Papua, wildlife film school and first aid courses in Warwick click here to download
• For archives of earlier newsletters click here

Other Articles
Article in the BMC magazine Summit

• Fieldskills contribute to BMC magazine :we were delighted to offer some advice and information on jungle safety to the British Mountaineering Council for their publication Summit click here to download the first page
  and here to download the second page
• And a further article on desert safety
• Please click here to find out more about the BMCs work – www.thebmc.co.uk

Fieldskills courses featured in the Guardian

• Training at Oxford Brookes University covered in EducationGuardian :we were delighted to welcome a journalist and photographer from the Guardian on one of our courses to see just why university students would need to learn jungle skills click here to see the article

Fieldskills in Wide World magazine

• Top Tips on jungle trekking featured in online outdoor magazine: click here to see the article

Fieldskills Featured on Archeology Magazine Past Horizons

• Advice for setting up your archaeology field trip click here to see the article
• For the full magazine click here

Insect Repellents

• DEET seems to be widely accepted as being the most effective form of insect repellent. However once you’ve seen what it does to the plastic on your watch you might start to wonder what it is doing to your skin. Our standard line on courses has generally been that DEET is accepted to be the most effective though we all have our own repellent which we swear by – citronella, catnip, avon skin so soft… So we've tried to trawl the net in search of some evidence:
  Saying catnip is more effective than Deet
  Saying DEET is best
  Overall however the general opinion appears to be that there is no (or little) clinical evidence in support of non deet products, well summed up here:…
  However please let us know your experiences – I know I am always willing to try some new concoction. As ever Wikipedia is a good jumping off point to more info…