18+ Years Operating, 250+ Instructors, Training Across All 50 States
Wilderness & Mountain Based programs
Consulting & Competency
Our cadre of Mountain Rescue subject matter experts has developed some of the most advanced and comprehensive training programs available in the United States. We offer multiple levels of instruction, detailed below, and provide additional services including Mountain Rescue Association (MRA)–aligned competency development, unit and team consulting, exercise and program design, and the development of both low- and high-angle operational procedures. Our team is prepared to support agencies and organizations with industry-leading expertise and fully customized solutions tailored to operational needs.
If the below courses are not what you're looking for, give us a call or email in the office: nrrieducation@gmail.com or (800) 718-1597
Mountain Rescue Programs
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Canyon Rescue Programs
Canyon rescue operations are widely regarded as among the most technically demanding rescue disciplines within wilderness environments. These incidents typically require the implementation of complex rope, rigging, and access systems, often in confined, vertical, and environmentally dynamic terrain. When swiftwater is present, additional hazards—including hydraulics, variable flow rates, limited egress options, and elevated risk to rescuers—further increase operational complexity. Our Canyon Rescue programs are specifically designed for experienced canyoneers and qualified responders, focusing on advanced techniques, risk management, and operational decision-making required to safely and effectively conduct rescues in these challenging environments.
Arctic & Cold Weather Training
Our Cold Environment Based Focus
When operating or responding in cold weather or arctic environments, multiple factors must be addressed to ensure optimal performance and operational efficiency. Foundational elements include physical fitness, appropriate footwear, and properly layered clothing systems designed for cold-weather operations. Building upon these fundamentals, units must develop terrain-specific movement and navigation skills suited to permanent snowfields, seasonal snow cover, tundra, and glaciated environments.
Our experience includes working alongside special operations forces, special forces units, and other specialized teams conducting missions in these demanding conditions. Proficiency in cold-weather survival, mobility, and terrain negotiation is essential for safe, effective, and sustained operations in cold and arctic environments.
Our Team
Our arctic and cold weather instructors bring years of professional experience conducting operations, training, and emergency response in cold-weather and arctic environments across mountainous regions worldwide.
Our Services
Cold weather and arctic survival; cold-weather footwear and layered clothing systems; ice climbing; glacier travel and rescue operations; cold-weather aerial insertion and extraction; remote medicine in cold environments; snow climbing; snowshoeing; skiing; and additional advanced cold-weather operational skills.
Established winter & cold weather programs
Ice Climbing
Aerial Operations
Mountaineering
Knowing how to properly negotiate frozen vertical waterfall ice when encountered en-route is a skill that any winter or cold weather operator should possess. Our ice climbing courses and programs are instructed by expert mountain guides who have decades of experience in this environment. Click here for availability!
Mountaineering
Aerial Operations
Mountaineering
Developing proficiency in terrain negotiation within snow-covered Class III to Class V terrain requires deliberate practice and efficiency-focused training under professional instruction. From avalanche awareness and risk mitigation to high-angle roping techniques specifically adapted for snow-covered environments, these critical skills a
Developing proficiency in terrain negotiation within snow-covered Class III to Class V terrain requires deliberate practice and efficiency-focused training under professional instruction. From avalanche awareness and risk mitigation to high-angle roping techniques specifically adapted for snow-covered environments, these critical skills are comprehensively addressed within our mountaineering programs. Click here for availability!
Winter Survival
Aerial Operations
Aerial Operations
Winter survival differs significantly from general wilderness survival due to the unique challenges presented by cold-weather environments. Extreme temperatures, limited natural resources, and seasonal constraints require specialized knowledge, skills, and experience. Through our winter survival courses, participants are taught proven tec
Winter survival differs significantly from general wilderness survival due to the unique challenges presented by cold-weather environments. Extreme temperatures, limited natural resources, and seasonal constraints require specialized knowledge, skills, and experience. Through our winter survival courses, participants are taught proven techniques to survive, operate, and sustain themselves effectively in winter conditions.
Aerial Operations
Aerial Operations
Aerial Operations
When conducting aerial insertion, extraction, or hauling operations in winter environments, a thorough understanding of environmental conditions, their operational impacts, and long-term sustainability considerations is critical to mission success. Our instructors bring decades of collective experience operating in these demanding winter
When conducting aerial insertion, extraction, or hauling operations in winter environments, a thorough understanding of environmental conditions, their operational impacts, and long-term sustainability considerations is critical to mission success. Our instructors bring decades of collective experience operating in these demanding winter environments, ensuring instruction is grounded in proven, real-world practices.
Wilderness & Remote Medicine
What is Wilderness Medicine?
Wilderness medicine is generally defined as medical care provided in environments where access to definitive medical treatment is delayed by two or more hours. Many front-country settings—despite their proximity to roads or urban areas—still meet this definition due to the complexities involved in patient access and extraction. Challenging terrain, dense vegetation, and significant topographical variation can substantially extend evacuation times, making timely access to definitive care difficult even in seemingly accessible locations.
We offer Wilderness First Aid (WFA) courses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on a regular basis. WFA, and other courses, are offered in various locations around the United States.
Survival, tracking, S.E.R.E. & Land Navigation
Our Programs
Survival and land navigation are foundational skills that as military, law enforcement or a rescuer/responder should fully understand. Possessing the skills necessary to stay alive in the wilderness and knowing how to use a map and compass will help you build your base knowledge so you can focus on mission or call specific criteria. These skills, when practiced and tested regularly, become just as important as situational awareness and/or environment based recognition.
Wilderness Survival
Knowing how to stay alive in any environment are skills that anyone should possess. During these courses you'll learn all four elements of survival: Fire, Shelter, Water & Food. We offer basic to advanced survival programs. Or, we can customize a program to fit your agency's or personal needs. Our instructors are experts in the field of survival.
Bushcraft & Primitive Living
Primitive living and bushcraft skills are considered "long term" survival skills. During this training you'll learn skills necessary for longevity in the wilderness environment. We instruct how to build shelters and fire systems for the long haul. We also cover various water filtration systems, animal trapping methods and much more! We run these courses on a call in basis, so give us a call or email! nrrieducation@gmail.com or (800) 718-1597
Land & Wilderness Navigation
Basic Land Navigation
Night/Advanced Navigation
Intermediate Navigation
Learn the basic of wilderness land navigation with our experienced instructors! During this 4 hour course, you'll learn how to use a compass in conjunction with topographic maps, terrain recognition, triangulation, following a bearing and much more!
Intermediate Navigation
Night/Advanced Navigation
Intermediate Navigation
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Night/Advanced Navigation
Night/Advanced Navigation
Night/Advanced Navigation
Using a map and compass at night is considered a specific and challenging skill. Night navigation relies on another skill set that you'll learn during this 4-6 hour course conducted in a night environment. Pacing, celestial navigation, light choices, route planning, altimeter use and much more! This course is OCS compliant and considered a preparatory course.