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The team were called out  around 7pm to search for two walkers who had got benighted and lost in cloud on the Ben Achallader - Ben a Creachain ridge. They were not carrying head torches, map or compass and lost their bearings in the dark and cloud.

Several pairs of team members began searching the ridge from either end. Fortunately for the lost walkers one of them managed to download a smart phone app that allowed him to find their latitude and longtitude co-ordinates via his phone GPS. The callout manager had been in touch with them when the callout first came in and so they had his home phone number. They called this and gave their co-ordinates to his wife who relayed them to the callout manager via Oban police. He converted them to ordnance survey grid references and pinpointed them on top of Ben a Creachain. He then radio'd the teams on the hill to tell them to make for the walkers location. They were eventually found just before midnight, cold but otherwise well, and escorted off the hill by 2am.