A pensioner who collapsed while hiking in the Highlands was rescued thanks to an emergency app - which helped paramedics find her by using just three words. Anne Hodgson, 84, was on a birthday trip to Loch Morlich with her daughter Lynn Evans, 58, when she started having chest pains.
Lynn, from Bridgend, South Wales, said the pair didn't get far into the walk on May 18 before her mum, a great-gran-of-three, said she couldn't go any further. Lynn thought the pains might be a side effect of issues with her mum's blood pressure and quickly found a bench to take a rest.
But when gran-of-six Anne, from Whitby, North Yorkshire, sat down, she lost consciousness and started sliding off the bench. Lynn called an ambulance and was able to give them her location using geocoding app 'what3words' which gave her the unique location code of 'directs, whizzing, distracts'.
