Good Morning Britain hosts stunned as guest shows how phone's safety feature saved his life

Kate Garraway and Adil Ray were left stunned during the latest edition of Good Morning Britain as a guest revealed how his phone's safety feature saved his life. The pair were at the helm of the ITV news programme on Thursday (April 7) and were joined by snowboarder Tim Blakey.

Their guest, who was live in the studio, was on the show to share his incredible story of survival after the ground under him gave way and fell 15ft into a crevasse while he was snowboarding off-piste in Switzerland.

Fortunately, Tim managed to land on a fragile shelf of ice to break his fall but if it wasn't for that, he could have fallen off deeper. Despite being in a better position than he could have been, Tim had just three percent battery left on his phone.

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"My mind trying to go to bed every night just replays what would have happened if I missed that little bridge and fallen off deeper. I'm sure I wouldn't have got a 3G connection down there," he said.

But, in that terrifying moment, Tim remembered that pressing the on/off button five times on the device would call emergency services for him. "For the first few moments I tried to call out for help... it was after four or five minutes that I realised that no one was coming," he recalled.

After attempting to message a friend, he remembered a 'five-click function' on his phone. "I remember hearing about this five-click function, which will automatically dial emergency services," he said. "It was so efficient - it didn't go via the UK, just went straight to Switzerland. Spoke to the emergency services in Switzerland. The telephone operator was very helpful,