cell phone

There are a couple things one expects to see when climbing Mount Everest—snow and fog, of course, top that list. There are also a couple of things one does not expect to see when climbing Mount Everest—namely, cellular phones.
It’s time to move the latter to the former, because Mount… Read the rest

Three hikers in Kentucky’s Big South Fork National River Recreational Area had to spend an uncomfortable night lost in the woods last weekend despite being able to communicate with rangers via cell phone.
From the NPS Morning Report (the emphasis is my own):

A Scott County Sheriff’s Office dispatcher received … Read the rest

A 26-year-old Arizona man learned a hard lesson in winter mountain survival this weekend: if your friend’s cell phone falls into a steep snow-and-ice-covered volcanic caldera with an icy-cold lake at the bottom, let it go man. It’s gone.
Local ski patrol and fire fighters were called to Crater Lake… Read the rest