How Apple’s new satellite emergency SOS service helped save two mountaineers
Owen Clarke
“It is a feature that all fans of outdoor activities should know, both for its advantages and its limitations,” explain the German Ines Papert and the Canadian Emilie Pellerin, two professional climbers who faced a disaster at the foot of the mountain have escaped. Canada with their iPhones satellite emergency SOS feature. A service launched by Apple in 2022 that theoretically allows you to contact emergency services in white areas. But where do you find this functionality in your smartphone? How does it work? Is it really reliable? Will other brands offer it? Saturday September 2nd. Ines Papert and Emilie Pellerin, two professional climbers, are tackling the second part of their major route “Crouching Tiger” in the depths of British Columbia on Canada’s west coast. “Em” [Emilie Pellerin, ndlr] climbed every pitch straight away [sans avoir reconnu au préalable les mouvements, ndlr] “, remembers Ines Papert. “She impressed me. I had never seen anyone perform so well on a field like this.” At this point, both athletes had just completed the most demanding pitches. At around 6:30 p.m. Emilie Pellerin steps onto the ninth pitch. “They had great difficulty finding the ideal protection,” Ines continues. “It took him fifteen minutes to place two jammers.” Then the climber realizes that she is probably off the route. And after a few moments of reflection, she decides to return to her last base, not knowing if he can hold her in case of a fall. If she’s attached to it, let it go. Emilie is therefore thrown from the wall in a long fall from a height of seven meters. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ines Papert (@inespapert) When she landed, the Canadian immediately realized that her ankle was broken. The rope group then improvises a rail with strapping and the cardboard back of a chocolate bar wrapper… before setting off on a 400-meter-long abseiling tour. Arrived at the foot of the wall…
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