From the "hard to type a text message with mittens" dept....a new twist on the life-saving benefit of wireless: this time a text message was sent to a friend rather than calls to 911. Good friend too - he managed to get them out in a day. The article does say it took many messages to find them. If only they had gpsOne it could have been done in one call.The article from the Hearald Sun below does not explain what network they connected too, but we know that with GSM timing advance limiations they had to be whithin 35 km of the base station.

Herald Sun: Text message saves mountaineers [ 08oct03 ]