Two lost tourists were saved by an MP3 player from a freezing night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains.
Gery Baumann, spokesman for mountain rescue service Rega said that the French pair, a skier and snowboarder, had gotten lost outside marked runs near the resort of Savognin in southeast Switzerland.
They used their mobile to tell the authorities that they were lost, but it ran out of battery power before rescuers could find them.
However the pair of winter sports enthusiasts were found by the crew of the Rega helicopter shortly after midnight, "thanks to the faint light of their MP3 player," he said.
They were suffering from mild hypothermia as temperatures fell as low as 5 degrees Fahrenheit.
Reuters