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Rescue by E-mail

Posted by timothy on from the GPS-is-your-friend dept.

BlameFate writes: "This neat article over at The Scotsman tells of a guy trying to be the first person to walk to the north pole solo. He got marooned and needed rescuing though, so how did he co-ordinate the rescue attempt? Why, by making a 400m runway in the snow taking a digital photo of it and then e-mailing the photo to the rescue team in Canada of course! The Scotsman is short on details; but BBC News is out for me right now."

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  1. Flashbacks by MrHat · · Score: 0, Troll

    For a moment there I was having Jon Katz flashbacks.

    But then I remembered that if this were another JonKatz e-mail "rescue", the submission would have been five times as long, communicate half the information, and have no links or grounding in reality.

    And I would have been found by police, slumped over at my keyboard, bleeding from the eyes, ears and nose, dead from a second and final brain hemmorage at the hands of Jon Katz.

    Thank you, timothy. In your own special way, you've instilled a little journalistic integrity in all of us. Or maybe I'm thinking of sanity.