“We had everything we needed to be safe,” Vanessa Bridge said in January last year as she reflected on being rescued from Fiordland’s remote Dusky Trackafter activating a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB).
After breaking her ankle three days into the challenging eight-day expedition, Vanessa and her partner, Andy Reid, both from Auckland, werehad emergency shelter and surplus food, two important items they would have needed for an unexpected lengthy stay in the isolated outdoors.
