A phone with a GPS or a dedicated GPS with dead batteries are as good as a stone, on the other hand a compass and a good map and knowing how to use them is being prepared.
There are to many city folks that think that going out in the wilderness is as good as going to the city park, when I lived in Sweden at my uncles out in the country we had a pension and folks from the city would come up to breathe the mountain air so to speak, I was part of the search and rescue, we had maps of the different trails for our guests to have and marked the trails with ribbons made from colorful plastic, white, red, yellow, pink, blue never with brown or green to easy to not be seen by someone half panicked and stressed, we normally assisted with searches from the hotel a couple of kilometers up the road, they were always loosing folks from the cities.
I am glad that they found him alive, it is sad when it turns into a recovery, specially small children and mom.
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