Paul Andrews wonders over at the Seattle Times whether gizmo could have saved Aron Ralston , that mountain climber who had to reduce off his own right sleeve after being snare under an 800 pound boulder in a Utah canyon . turn out that there is n’t much out there today that could have helped . Ralston was too far out of range to use a cellular telephone or a two - path tuner , and even a Global Positioning System transponder would use tellurian connection to transmit an SOS , so that ’s out also .
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