A lone hiker who broke his leg on the Isle of Skye was saved after using a location app to raise the alarm with emergency services. John McGuire had walked around a mile-and-a-half towards the Fairy Pools during a solo holiday on Thursday, February 9, when he tripped over a tyre track on a rural path.
The 62-year-old, from Yorkshire, realised he was in trouble and managed to lower himself to the ground before attempting to call 999. The experienced walker had downloaded the what3words app and was able to pinpoint his exact location for paramedics and mountain rescue teams despite poor mobile phone signal.
Around two hours later, the dad-of-two, who was on the brink of hypothermia due to chilly weather conditions, was stretchered off to an ambulance and taken to the nearby Broadford Hospital. He has since had a metal plate and three pins fitted into his broken fibula bone.
