How to lose yourself in the wild without getting lost

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How to lose yourself in the wild without getting lost

Having wireless communications with you when there’s no mobile reception isn’t just about making adventure travel more social. It’s safer, too.

John DavidsonColumnist

May 21, 2024 – 5.00am

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Stuck in the bowels of the Digital Life Labs, toiling away to serve you up a fresh selection of gadgets every week, I can’t sit here and tell you we’re exactly experts when it comes to adventure travel.

But I can tell you something about adventures we have observed over the decades: the best travel stories often start when plans go awry.

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John DavidsonColumnistJohn Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology.