Is it not possible that this pilgrim made the call and, as her mobile went dead immediately, that she assumed that the call hadn’t got through?
Given that she had to walk back to SJPdP before she could make another call, it might have been very late by the time she booked into the hotel. Presumably she would have been exhausted, both mentally and physically.
She was probably asleep until quite late on the following day.
The wonderful response and the tremendous effort that was put into finding a pilgrim, in her late 60s and possibly benighted on the mountain, was a huge waste of precious resources, but isn’t it possible that the peregrina had no idea that simply calling 112 would have initiated this selfless response?
Especially as she mightn’t have even been aware that the call had registered.
This thread is important in that it is very useful in an informative sense .... and it might give hope to a lost and frightened pilgrim in the future, whose phone dies at the moment of making contact. Perhaps it could be the impetus for a ‘sticky’?
But please ... imagine if this had been you, on your first Camino, reading these comments
Judge not, lest ye be judged .... ?