Paul is a General Medical Practitioner and member of the Local Medical Committee in a market town in Essex. A comfortable place to live, but a long way from any mountains, though he does manage to escape regularly to Wales, Cumbria and Staffordshire where climbing enthusiasm compensates for ability.

He runs a Travel Clinic from the practice, specializing in remote or difficult itineraries and is an Honorary Lecturer in Travel Medicine at the Department of Academic Travel Medicine & Vaccines, Royal Free Hospital, UCL, London.

Paul is also a director of Medical Expeditions, a research charity with the remit to promote research and education into high altitude medicine and physiology. Previous research expeditions include Everest in 1994 when two members summited, Kangchenjunga base camp in 1998 and Chamlang base camp in 2003. The Charity also organises a yearly three day high altitude medicine course, and for the past 4 years, a biannual international research conference held in Oxford.

He is a holder of and faculty member of the Diploma of Mountain Medicine for which he is course organiser for the Expedition and Travel Medicine course component. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has contributed to their Expedition Medicine textbook. Other memberships include the International Society of Travel Medicine, Wilderness Medical Society and International Society of Mountain Medicine. He is currently part of the organizing committee for the joint WMS / ISMM congress to be held in Aviemore in October 2007.

Over the last few years he has been on numerous expeditions as diverse as overland desert driving, high altitude mountaineering, tropical rainforest exploration, SCUBA diving or Arctic dog sledging. On many of them he has been the medical officer. Paul has trekked or climbed in numerous countries such as Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Indonesia, Morocco, Kenya, European Alps and seven visits to Nepal. The latter includes working a season as Staff Physician at the CIWEC Travel Clinic in Kathmandu.

In 2005 he was one of the climbers on the first Caudwell Xtreme Everest pilot expedition to Cho Oyu where he reached 7100m and organised the expedition solar power system.

His major role on CXE has been to design and build the power supply at each laboratory including Western Cwm and to operate as part of the small Logistics team of four. They arrived in Nepal ahead of the expedition to receive the 23 tonnes of freight and set up each lab and base camp. He is also one of the support climbers and one of the deputy medical officers.

When not engaged in the above, Paul enjoys climbing, running, computing and electronics, pottering around his wild garden or joining in games with his 6 year old son.