{"id":34602,"date":"2023-02-22T10:39:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T15:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=34602"},"modified":"2023-03-09T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:34:26","slug":"mount-owen-resqlink-lost-hikers","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/survivor-stories\/mount-owen-resqlink-lost-hikers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Exhausted Hiker Activates Their PLB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was on a mountain adventure by myself tackling a pretty challenging summit Mount Owen, Nelson<\/a>. When I got to the hut, I left everything behind apart from my safety gear (including my personal locator beacon), water, and a light jacket. I went to do the last four hour push at about 3pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I nailed the steep climb up to the summit by 5pm. Excited, though a bit tired after 10 hours, started walking down what I thought was the right track. It was marked by rock towers.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Rock Towers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I should have been using a map as well.. but hindsight comes to us all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clouds came down and visibility became a little tough.. I realized I wasn’t where I was meant to be about 15 minutes in and tried to back track but couldn’t see any way back that I recognized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deciding to try to get a better look so I hit ridge after ridge until 3 hours had past of me trying when I realized I was lost and not in a safe situation.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling really stupid.. I knew I could keep trying but I was exhausted and starting to panic.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was about 8pm at this stage. I decided I needed press the button on my personal locator beacon and within an hour a helicopter picked me up. They were amazing and assured me I had done the right thing and at the right time. I was so thankful I had the PLB with me… It would have been very different without it!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I decided to try to get a better look so I hit ridge after ridge until 3 hours had past of me trying when I realized I was lost and not in a safe situation.. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135477,"featured_media":34601,"template":"","survivor-category":[17],"terrain":[21],"survivor-event":[136],"survivor-cause":[127],"survivor-rescue":[139],"class_list":["post-34602","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-hiking","terrain-mountain","survivor-event-normal-conditions","survivor-cause-lost","survivor-rescue-local-search-and-rescue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/34602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=34602"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=34602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}