The strange story of the disappeared Germans in Death Valley

[Caspin]

Well now, Mr Green, you read some odd websites!

It is a good idea to have a phone mast there so that they can track people in remote areas. This made me think of a guy I went to school with. He always wore a big skiing jacket that was really only suitable for far colder weather than we got most of the time. He used to boast about it having some kind of GPS tracker sewn into it, the idea being that it you were lost in the mountains (while wearing a skiing jacket for skiing - a novel use for this garment), the rescue teams would be able to use it to find you, even if you had been buried under an avalanche. I always thought he must suffer terrible paranoia, as the chances of avalanche in the north-west of England seemed small. If the device was based on anything like satnav, it would probably be useless anyway, given the stories you hear about people determinedly following the instructions even when they cease to make any sense at all, then ending up in a river or on a ferry to France etc.