Ryan became stranded after reversing into a snow ditch.
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That's when Ryan clicked to send a text to his wife before attaching his cellphone to a drone and sending it up several hundred feet to pick up a signal.
"I had actually seen that movie 'Fall' recently and my friend had remembered watching on the news a couple of years ago that there was people dropping phones into jails for inmates. We realized we just have to get as high as the mountain," he said.
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Rescuers were then sent out to find him where they also rescued the other motorist who started the whole ordeal and had been stranded for several days.