meet the team – The people leading Slava Mountain Medicine’s clinical work, research and operations.
jeremy windsor
Jeremy Windsor is a Consultant in Anaesthetics and Critical Care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. He is also trustee of the British Mountain Medicine Society, (BMMS) and Director of the Center for mountain medicine at the University of Central Lancaster (UCLan). For many years he has taught on Diploma in Mountain Medicine courses, and more recently developed MSc and MD programs in Mountain medicine. He is a section editor for Wilderness and Environmental medicine and has more than 100 publications in the field of mountain medicine.
As an avid climber, cyclist, mountaineer, runner, and swimmer, Jeremy has explored much of the UK. Further a field he has visited mountain ranges across the world. From bouldering on small rocky outcrops to 8000 m peaks he has enjoyed every moment!
Samantha Dickson
Sammy holds a degree in Geography and is a qualified nurse, currently working in Intensive Care (ITU). Alongside her clinical career, she is a full team member of Loch Lomond Mountain Rescue Team, bringing valuable experience in emergency response and pre-hospital care in challenging mountain environments.
She holds the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM) and is a qualified Mountain Leader (ML) and Rock Climbing Instructor (RCI), combining her medical expertise with extensive practical experience in the outdoors. Sammy joined the Slava Mountain Medicine team in 2025.
natasha brook
Tasha is a qualified nurse working in primary care, mountain leader (ML) and Montane athlete.
Her background includes serving as a British Army Nursing Officer, volunteering with RAF Mountain Rescue and working in Army Adventure Training. She holds the Diploma in Mountain Medicine and is part of the ad hoc teaching team for the High Altitude Medicine module on the Diploma in Mountain Medicine, contributing to the education and development of future mountain medicine practitioners while conducting her own research into women at high altitude.
An ultra-runner with experience on 8000m peaks, Tasha is passionate about mountain expeditions, endurance performance, and medicine in remote and high-altitude environments.
Sarah wysling
stephen taylor
Stephen Taylor started walking and climbing in Scotland as a schoolboy and hasn’t stopped since. In addition to his native mountains, he has climbed widely in the European Alps and since 2008, has participated in around a dozen expeditions to unclimbed peaks in the Pamir and Tien Shan ranges of Kyrgyzstan.
In 2017, Stephen visited Lenin Peak for the first time to undertake research into the impacts of commercial mountaineering. With a doctorate in the governance of natural areas and a passionate interest in sustainable mountain tourism, the level and nature of tourism on Lenin Peak offered significant research opportunities.
It was on Lenin Peak in 2023, with American ski-patroller Dave Wade, that a chance encounter with a seriously ill Iranian climber at Camp 2 (5,300m) necessitated, a subsequently successful, high-altitude rescue effort. This ultimately led to the pair founding the Slava Topol Project (STP), a preventative search and rescue system (PSAR), on Lenin Peak.
Slava Mountain Medicine represents an evolution of the STP which seeks to build and strengthen the collaborative high altitude medical provision on Lenin Peak and across Kyrgyzstan more widely.
