Binoculars In An Emergency

I went on a trip once where binoculars actually helped in an emergency. I was hiking up a mountain one nice fall day with one of my friends and we were about halfway up the mountain. We were talking and having fun, neither of us really paying too much attention. My friend was jumping on some rocks through a stream and missed a step, he landed in between some rocks and his foot got twisted, he broke his ankle right there.

We thought that the closest shack was at the base of the mountain which would have taken hours to walk back to. I thought that we must have gotten closer and so I took out my binoculars and I was able to look up higher on the mountain and see that there was actually another hut up the mountain a bit further. I was able to run up to there and we called in a helicopter who came and airlifted him to safety. If it weren’t for the binoculars he would have been without help for a very long time.