{"id":27052,"date":"2023-06-05T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=27052"},"modified":"2023-06-05T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:02:07","slug":"foil-blanket-mobile-phones-helicopter-rescue-broken-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/foil-blanket-mobile-phones-helicopter-rescue-broken-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Foil Blanket, Mobile Phones, Helicopter Rescue, Broken Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title of last month&#8217;s winning Walk Report says it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/Forum\/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;t=118250\">Foil Blanket, Mobile Phones, Helicopter Rescue, Broken Bones<\/a> is gld73&#8217;s gripping tale of how easy a relatively straightforward hillwalk can go horribly wrong. The guys at Highlander who sponsor the competition said they were speechless reading this report, describing it as an incredible (and lucky) story shared with the community &#8211; well worthy of the \u00a3100 voucher prize. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230418_133929.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230418_133929.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230418_133929-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/20230418_133929-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">gld73&#8217;s view as they set off on the walk (Photo: gld73)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May&#8217;s runner up was tomyboy73&#8217;s account <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/Forum\/viewtopic.php?f=9&amp;t=118626\">The Aonach Eagach at last<\/a>. A great mix of fear, fun, atmospheric photos and great memories is described as a group of friends tackle this much anticipated Glencoe ridge. A \u00a350 Highlander voucher is on its way to the runner up and if you fancy doing this route yourself check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/fortwilliam\/aonacheagach.shtml\">Aonach Eagach<\/a> on Walkhighlands.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20230520_120314-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20230520_120314-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20230520_120314-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20230520_120314-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_20230520_120314.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tackling the chimney (photo: tomyboy73)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every month, two winning Walk Reports are chosen from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/Forum\/\">Walkhighlands forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of last month&#8217;s winning Walk Report says it all. Foil Blanket, Mobile Phones, Helicopter Rescue, Broken Bones is gld73&#8217;s gripping tale of how easy a relatively straightforward hillwalk can go horribly wrong. The guys at Highlander who sponsor the competition said they were speechless reading this report, describing it as an incredible (and lucky) story shared with the community &#8211; well worthy of the \u00a3100 voucher prize. May&#8217;s runner up was tomyboy73&#8217;s account The Aonach Eagach at last. A great mix of fear, fun, atmospheric photos and great memories is described as a group of friends tackle this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/foil-blanket-mobile-phones-helicopter-rescue-broken-bones\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27058,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27052\/revisions\/27058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}