Tag: GPS communication device

We can posit how the outing and the fallen climber’s fate could have had a grim outcome had no communication been possible. Imagine if climber #1, badly injured, had the InReach and was either unconscious or physically unable to trigger the SOS. What occurred was a best-case scenario. Climber #2 had cell service; if there was no service, he had the InReach. 

In the episode’s brief show notes, Mulkey writes, “Lots to learn from this story. You won’t take just one GPS communication device into the mountains ever again.”