The program is the first of its kind on the East Coast, and will include courses on wilderness rescue, mountain skills and emergency medicine.
Acadia Mountain Guides Climbing School is partnering with Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to offer a new mountain medicine program.
"That's one of the beauties of I think combining the rescue component with the medicine, because people don't often combine those in training," he said."They train for medicine and they train for rescue. This puts these two things together."
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