Posted on 10/26/2021 7:08:30 AM PDT by billorites
A Colorado hiker who had wandered off the trail and got lost ignored repeated phone calls from rescuers because the hiker didn’t recognize the number, officials said.
The person started hiking Mount Elbert from the South Trailhead on October 18 around 9 a.m., Lake County Search and Rescue said. The hiker did not return by evening. Five LCSAR members searched for the hiker until early the next morning but were unsuccessful.
The missing hiker finally showed up at their place of lodging around 9:30 a.m. and the search was called off, LCSAR said.
The hiker told rescue officials they had wandered off the trail around nightfall and could not find their way back. They said they spent the night searching for the trail, and once located, bounced around onto different trails trying to locate the proper trailhead – all while not realizing that a rescue team was out looking for them.
LCSAR said the subject ignored "repeated phone calls" because they simply didn’t recognize the number.
LCSAR has now left other hikers with some advice: "If you’re overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone."
Fox News has reached out to LCSAR for additional comment.
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Just damn.
What I want to know is with all this big brother and technology, why can’t the towers or ‘system’ work off the fact the calls are making it to a working phone. Just use the gps data or tower data when the call is processed to locate the phone itself.
This is totally within the realm of technology, I can’t buy that no law enforcement can’t do this.
I hate getting those calls for my car warranty when I’m trying to get rescued.
Yep, the Darwin Awards was probably also trying to track them down.
Is this another person who uses "they & their" as personal pronouns?
I can relate to this man’s adversity to SPAM calls
Had they sent him a text, he probably would have read it.
They are really going out of their way to not mention the hiker’s name.
That was not time to take Spam Callers.
Averse not adverse. Aversion is the word you were looking for but spell check cannot provide it.
Hiker, singular, THEY/THEIR plural?................
I get calls for my car warranty about to expire and it’s a 2014................
‘Yes, I know I’m late on my Citibank card payment. If you can get me off this mountain, I can get it caught up!”
“What is your location, sir?”
“Nepal.”
“Oh, I am in Nepal. I mean, Chicago. Head south 1 kilometer and you will be on a winding path. Turn right and you will arrive at a village. Ask for Norgay. You can wait for rescuers there.”
Good question.
News articles are about as fact-centric as birth certificates these days.
was he lost? he was receiving calls seems like he could make calls.
I’ll see your 2014 and raise the stakes...
I get calls for my car warranty about to expire and it’s a 2006................
Is there a near Darwin award?
They should have taken him back in the boonies and left him without a cell phone and smeared bacon grease all over him.
Do what I do. Tell the Indian on the other end of the line that you drive a 1925 Ford Model-T.
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