Many thanks to all who attended the 18-20 May, 2026 XIV World Congress on Mountain Medicine in the UK Peak District, and also a special thanks to the organizers who made this event possible. This joint effort between the British Mountain Medicine Society and the ISMM attracted nearly 300 participants representing numerous countries from many continents. Our intent is to organize the next ISMM congress in 2028, and the location will be determined by late summer/early autumn this year.
Future plans for the ISMM include expanding our membership numbers, determining how to better serve the international mountain medicine community, and building closer relationships with national mountain medicine societies around the world. But the overarching goal of the ISMM going forward will remain the goal set out in 1985 when the society was founded – to encourage generation and dissemination of scientific and practical information about mountain medicine across the globe.

Stay tuned for updates in this space!
George Rodway