MP3 player saves tourists
The light shineth in the darkness
Monday, 29 December 2008, 12:15
TWO LOST tourists were saved by an MP3 player from a freezing night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains.
Gery Baumann, spokesman for mountain rescue service Rega said that the French pair, a skier and snowboarder, had gotten lost outside marked runs near the resort of Savognin in southeast Switzerland.
They used their mobile to tell the authorities that they were lost, but it ran out of battery power before rescuers could find them.
However the pair of winter sports enthusiasts were found by the crew of the Rega helicopter shortly after midnight, "thanks to the faint light of their MP3 player," he said.
They were suffering from mild hypothermia as temperatures fell as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit. µ
L'Inq
Reuters
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Or as low as -15 degrees Celcius, for those of us born after 1980!
Agreed.
If they cannot suffer in Celcius, then I'm not sure they're worth saving
Fahrenheit: From the people who brought you multi-billion-dollar space probes that bounce off the Martian atmosphere
Since it was a European destination then the units conversion happened at the journalist stage.
You have to remember that Americans are still using slug-feet per second style units.
I was born before 1980 and I work in Celcius (actually Centigrade but thats another story)
Fahrenheit is a useless unit, its truly one of the daftest ever. The bizarre notion of 180 degrees between freezing and boiling of water being useful is truly absurd.
Now they're trying to take our Fahrenheit away, next it will be our stiff upper wossnames. I blame the EU, the yoo-nineted nationals and Nulabour!. And Immigrants.
After all, what's wrong with measuring speed in furlongs per fortnight, or etching wafers with a hatchet? If it was good enough for my mother, it's good enough for..
Yep, ranting aside, even most vaguely scientifically literate brits born in the last 45 or so years are using something faintly SI-ish, rather than these silly measurements from the era of witchburning.
Maybe the author is spending too much time in hostelries with other Daily Mail reading cheap lager-sozzled numpties, and doesn't have time to do much more than badly précis stories written byothers- the seemingly useless units were his own little dash of "special" this time :)
Articles like this one make me feel sick.
5% of the world's population simply CANNOT cope with the metric system, in particular the SI. Seriously, we cannot educate this remaining 5%.
Take a look at the map and see how isolated this 5% is. www.metric4us.com
Search the BBC web site for "pint" and you will find that the BBC argues the Brits are too dumb to order half a litre of milk instead of a pint. No kidding.
Don't get me started on the yanks.
Whether you say 5F or -15C, the problem is, that's not even cold! And that's the coldest it got?! When it's -25C during the day, then you can start calling it cold.
And what did they wear to the ski hill, a pair of slacks and a t-shirt?
@Brian
Warm to some is cold to others. Maybe they're from somewhere in the caribbean (since they ARE tourists) where 50F is considered cold.