British Snowboarder saved by light from his mobile
Did you catch this one yesterday?
Link: Sky News: ‘It’s A Miracle’
A British snowboarder, buried alive by an avalanche in the French Alps, has been saved by the light from his mobile phone.
Thomas Murphy, 30, had been boarding off-piste in the Deux-Alpes in an area regarded as challenging, but dangerous.
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His would-be rescuers rang him and told him to use the light from his mobile to guide the helicopter in.
Really smart! I used the light on my N93 the other day in the darkness, it really is a useful feature.
I’m sure Thomas Murphy will:
a) be delighted he charged his handset before leaving for a day’s snowboarding.
b) be delighted he TOOK his phone with him. Good man!
c) be content he selected a handset that had a decent enough screen to warrant a good level of brightness to guide the helicoper.
I wonder what handset it was, eh?
Whatever, it’s super that he’s been rescued.
I have a N93, and its good, but it could never be used as said
Posted by name on March 9th, 2007 at 12:18 am.Tom Murphy here
It was a Sony Ericsson 8310i. What a great light eh! Gotta say it def saved my life. Somehow managed to survive an avalanche two very large falls onto rocks and an overall fall of 1900 metres, so all in all, im a very lucky man!!!
There is a god, I do believe in fate and Karma!!
Tom
Posted by Tom Murphy on July 23rd, 2007 at 11:36 pm.