Social media and map apps blamed for record rise in mountain rescue callouts

by dp-hackernewson 4/26/25, 11:19 AMwith 1 comments
by Glawenon 4/27/25, 6:36 AM

My scariest hike has been in Scotland. You would think that you cannot get lost on mountains without any tree, and yet I did. Thank god I was near the sea and I knew the road was in that direction.

Google maps is absolutely useless once you reach a mountain, whether you have a car, bicycle or by foot. Yet we are losing map reading skills at alarming rate, replacing it with failed mapping technology. I also noticed we are not reading signs anymore once you follow your navigation system, which is treacherous in mountains