Physician and author Christopher Van Tilburg grew up camping, skiing, and traveling around the world with his parents. He has now taken up the extreme sport of
parenting, namely taking his daughters of for a ski, hike, bike, camp, surf, and rock climb. Dr. Van Tilburg, a specialist in wilderness and travel medicine, is hard to find at home as he is often with his daughters traipsing the wild backcountry and exotic foreign lands. These adventures led Dr. Van Tilburg to write
Introducing your Kids to the Outdoors (Stackpole, 2005).
Based in Hood River, Oregon, Dr. Van Tilburg is author of eight books including
Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature (St. Martins, Nov. 2007). He is editor of
Wilderness Medicine and is frequent contributor to
National Geographic Adventure,
Backcountry,
Columbia Gorge Magazine and
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine.
Read more at
www.docwild.net.