A group of tourists stranded near the top of the UK's highest mountain was saved thanks to a Scottish mountain rescue team and an app that helped track them down
The tourists were stranded in a blizzard near the summit of Ben Nevis. They had gone off for a hike and appeared to get lost. To make matters worse, the group was hardly prepared for the weather -- they wore sneakers and had no ice axes, crampons, or maps.Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team/Facebook
Rescue members with Scotland's Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team used the app to find the group on Monday night. What3words works as a user friendly GPS -- layering three simple words over just about any location on the planet.The tourists are"extremely lucky" to have survived, somehow managing to endure a blizzard with a wind chill factor of -20 degrees without any of the necessary equipment gear or clothes, according to the rescue group.
."Three of the guys were in trainers! They were about 150 meters down into Coire Eoghainn on steep ice and if they had slipped or gone down any further, consequences could have been far more serious."The four men were transported by helicopter to the Belford Hospital after being rescued. Ben Nevis, a popular tourist destination, is the highest mountain in the British Isles, standing at 1,343 meters. In March 2019, two climbersThe What3words app was able to take rescuers to a location on the mountain just meters away from where the tourists were trapped.
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