An skilled winter hiker and their canine had been rescued over the weekend by helicopter in northeastern Ontario after being reported lacking from Killarney Provincial Park, police say.
The 33-year-old from Cambridge was an skilled winter hiker travelling with sufficient meals for the deliberate eight-day tour, Ontario Provincial Police mentioned in a social media submit.
They had been reported lacking Nov. 10 after they did not return on time.
Officers with the Nipissing West detachment, emergency response unit and aviation unit discovered the hiker after two days of looking out with a helicopter, OPP mentioned.
The hiker sustained minor accidents and was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Police urge the general public to make use of a free locator app known as ‘What 3 Phrases.’
“The app labels each three squared metres with a novel three-word location string which could be transformed into latitude and longitude coordinates for entry into the Pc Aided Dispatch (CAD) system in use on the OPP provincial communication centre (PCC),” police mentioned.
“Even when the caller doesn’t have the app beforehand downloaded on their cell gadget, the PCC communicator can ship a hyperlink to the caller’s cellular phone which can allow the caller (with knowledge entry and connectivity), to search out their ‘what3words’ location.”
Greater than 40 languages can be found within the app and the situation is shared in English.
