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.

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