Re: Basic navigational skills badly missing

Rodders <rodders22xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
4 men who were found after a search in the Cairngorms had good equipment but
poor navigational skills were a few miles from where they thought they were.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4467894.stm

I heard that they called for help via a mobile phone, but there location was being traced by triangulating from the phone masts.

Why on earth didn't they have a GPS?
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Gordon Harris
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