- Sufferer from London disappeared on Monday, prompting rescue staff searches
A lacking British hiker has been discovered lifeless within the Spanish Pyrenees 4 days after he disappeared on a mountain hike.
Police and different emergency providers had been trying to find the 70-year-old Londoner, who has not been named, since disappeared on Monday.
Mountain search and rescue specialists from the Civil Guard’s Greim unit, the identical sort of police specialists which are in search of lacking Jay Slater in Tenerife, had been concerned.
As we speak it emerged the sufferer had been discovered lifeless near the Aspe Peak, a mountain within the western Pyrenees of Huesca on the western aspect of the Aragon Valley.
The 8,678ft peak towers over the Spanish ski resort of Candanchu and the Somport move on the border with France.
The grim discovery was made yesterday round 1pm though the knowledge solely turned public earlier in the present day.
File picture of the Pyrenees of Huesca. Groups had been in search of the Londoner since Monday
The three Greim officers who discovered the unnamed hiker’s physique knowledgeable a police helicopter which was within the space so he might be transferred to a close-by mountain refuge and handed over to funeral parlour staff.
The lifeless man is known to have been strolling between the Lizara and Candanchu mountain refuges.
The Civil Guard in Huesca are stated to have obtained a message from the UK’s Interpol workplace in Manchester giving them the co-ordinates of an SOS wristband the hiker was carrying.
Footage launched by the Civil Guard confirmed the operation to rescue the tragic Brit’s physique.
French police mountain rescue specialists are additionally understood to have participated within the operation to seek out the hiker after the alarm was raised.
In November 2020 British hiker Esther Dingled vanished on the Spanish aspect of the Pyrenees.
Her stays have been present in July 2021 close to the spot the place she disappeared.
Esther, 37, went trekking from the village of Benasque, round 175 miles east of the spot the place the British pensioner’s physique was discovered.
It was not instantly clear in the present day what had led to the most recent tragedy.
