New iPhones have satellite comms if you have no cellular signal. I carry a Garmin InReach Mini with me when I’m out of cellular range. It has an “SOS” button on it that communicates to a Garmin center and they contact you for info, then dispatch Search & Rescue. It can still take some time for S&R to get to you depending where you are.
That young woman died on the mountain in New York State in January. She had fallen, called on her phone at 2 pm, S&R was dispatched and, when they found her at 9 pm, she had frozen to death.
“New iPhones have satellite comms”
So do Samsungs.
T-Mobile has a subscription program where you can use apps for remote country outings.
You right, right now I can use the SOS on my I-phone to call in a chopper!
It was a while ago, before I had this feature.
AZ has a lot of areas out of cellular range.
I do lots of off roading and wilderness hiking, the SOS feature gives me some security now.
But then, I had several hours to even get into the range.
I almost step on it, I missed it by few inches, but, by grace of God, it never attacked.
In a way, it was obviously scared too.
Lot more rattlers get killed by humans than humans killed by rattlers!