An elderly long-distance walker who collapsed in pain in the Highlands has been rescued after a distress beacon was picked-up 4,000 miles away in America.The RAF, who co-ordinated the Danish man's rescue, said it was the first activation of a new type of distress transmitter, in the UK.
The tourist activated the beacon while on a long-distance coast-to-coast solo trek when he became ill in Glen Etive, 15 miles south of Fort William.
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