Introducing the various teams who work together, including the helicopter mountain team who treat an extreme case over 3,000m up as the patient slips in and out of consciousness, a young British lad who gets tough love from his Mum, and a pensioner on holiday with a group of friends who bangs his head and can't remember what day it is.

The changing weather causes difficulties on the mountains as the teams rescue a Geordie who's cut open his face and a woman who has fallen 13 metres without a helmet.

Ski Patrol and the medics deal with painful emergencies – including a heli-rescue from a mountain, a little boy with slashed fingers and a woman whose leg has, as one medic says, ‘exploded'.