Accidental Rescue Calls
Steve Howe’s wife and friend received this text message while Howe was making his way up Mt. McKinley:
Steve Howe is injured or immobilized & cannot proceed, but has no immediate life-threatening condition. Evac please
Latitude:63.0807
Longitude:-151.0691
Nearest Location: Kantishna, United States
At least the SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker was kind enough to say ‘please’ to his wife after Howe accidentally set off the tracker. She called park rangers and pulled her hair out for about three hours until someone made contact with Howe and found out that he’d accidentally set it off. You knew it was only a matter of time until this began happening.
via Out There
By- rockythompson
This entry was posted on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008 - 4:25 P.M. and is filed under Story, Backpacking. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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