Mountain climbers rescued by text message

Two British climbers were rescued yesterday after sending an SOS text message to a friend in London.

Rachel Kelsey,34, and her partner,Jeremy Colenso,33,who are both experienced climbers,were on a climbing holiday last week in Switzerland.But on Saturday night,when they were 3,000 metres up in the mountains,there was a terrible storm.The wind was incredibly strong and the snow was two metres deep.they couldn't move and they had to spend the night on the mountain.Rachel had her mobile phone with her,so she sent a text message to five friends in the UK asking for help.

About four hours later,one of her friends,Avery cunliffe in London,replied with a text message.Avery said, i don't usually have my mobile in the bedroom.At  about 4 am i woke up and saw Rachel's message.I found the number of the police in Switzerland and phoned them.they contacted the mountain rescue team.

But the weather was so bad that the helicopter couldn't get to the two climbers.The rescue team sent a text message to Rachel and Jeremy telling them that they had to spend a second night on the mountain.the message said : 'So sorry Rachel.we tried.wind too strong.have to wait till morning.take care.be strong'.Rachel said,'I thought we were going to die.It was freezing-15°C,and really windy on the mountain.
We spent the night talking and planning a holiday in the sun!

Next morning the storm passed and the helicopter arrived to take them off the mountain.Avery said,'when i heard that Rachel and Jeremy were safe i was dancing around my flat'.
Rachel said that she and Jeremy were now looking forward to a hot bath and a good meal.But first they were going to buy the rescue team a bottle of whisky!.