As I've pointed out above, it's not £1200, it's more like £370 and you can sell the PLB afterwards to get most of that back.
If you're only going to places where you can be pretty sure of footfall or mobile phone signal in case of emergency, fine, otherwise what do you do if you're off piste with no phone signal and you break a leg?
It's not about calling a breakdown service, it's about knowing that wherever you are in the world you can send an SOS signal and know someone is following up with the emergency services on your behalf.
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