{"id":37023,"date":"2023-06-12T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=37023"},"modified":"2025-04-17T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:42:43","slug":"beacon-activation-hikers-emergency","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/survivor-stories\/beacon-activation-hikers-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solo Hiker’s Rescue in Glenorchy Queenstown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A couple of our lady friends had decided to go for a day hike in Glenorchy Queenstown<\/a>. At the last minute, one of the ladies couldn\u2019t go, so Karen herself decided she would go on her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did advise her this wasn\u2019t a good idea, but she was going to go anyway as she had taken time off work. My wife said, \u201cokay then, if you\u2019re going to go, please take my husband\u2019s locator beacon with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wasn\u2019t going to, but we made her take it anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that Tuesday morning, my wife called me, her voice tense with concern. She\u2019d just received a phone call informing her that my locator beacon had been activated. The rescue team on the other end of the line explained that Karen had taken a serious fall down a steep bank. She had broken her ankle and sustained a leg injury, and they were mobilizing to reach her as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rescue helicopter was there within about half an hour to save her. Karen had already started to get cold, wearing all her clothes that she had with her. I don\u2019t know what would\u2019ve happened if she did not have the ACR ResQLink 400 beacon<\/a> with her as she lives alone, and it would\u2019ve been very late before anybody realized she hadn\u2019t made it home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know what would\u2019ve happened if she did not have the ACR ResQLink 400 beacon with her as she lives alone, and it would\u2019ve been very late before anybody realized she hadn\u2019t made it home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143597,"featured_media":37188,"template":"","survivor-category":[17],"terrain":[21],"survivor-event":[136],"survivor-cause":[123],"survivor-rescue":[2639],"class_list":["post-37023","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-hiking","terrain-mountain","survivor-event-normal-conditions","survivor-cause-medical-emergency","survivor-rescue-paramedics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/37023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=37023"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=37023"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=37023"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=37023"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=37023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}