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'Houston, I have a problem... in Glen Etive'

It was a triumph of technology over adversity in the great Scottish outdoors. When walker Niels Vinther took badly ill in a Highland glen early yesterday morning, he used a £149 device to trigger an international rescue.

It was a triumph of technology over adversity in the great Scottish outdoors.