German police say an American hiker stranded in the Bavarian Alps for nearly three days was rescued after using her sports bra as an SOS flag.
Jessica Bruinsma, 24 of Colorado, was lifted to safety by helicopter last Thursday after she attracted the attention of lumberjacks by attaching her sports bra to a the cable used to moved timber down the mountain.
Once lumberjacks spotted the bra on the moving cable, an alpine rescue team was able to the track the cable to the ledge where she had fallen.
Officials said a rescue team, including five helicopters and 80 emergency workers, had been searching for Bruinsma since she went missing June 16 after losing her way in bad weather hiking near the Austrian border.
She fell five metres onto a rocky overhang where she spent the next 70 hours on the narrow ledge, sustained by water that she found by breaking into a supply box on the ledge. She badly bruised a leg and dislocated a shoulder in the fall.
Wonder if this story would have received as much attention is she had used a different article of clothing?
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