A MISSING British hiker has been found dead in Spanish mountains after a sweeping search.
Police discovered the body of the 70-year-old man in Pyrenees after he vanished during his attempt to climb 8,700ft peak on Monday.
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The grim discovery was made yesterday around 1pm local time in the western Pyrenees of Huesca, on the western side of the Aragon Alley.
The 8,678ft peak towers over the Spanish ski resort of Candanchu and the Somport pass on the border with France.
The late hiker is understood to have been walking between the Lizara and Candanchu mountain refuges.
Mountain search and rescue team from the Civil Guard’s Greim unit – the same specialists looking for Jay Slater in Tenerife – have been involved in the search efforts.
A helicopter was deployed to the scene to transfer the unnamed man to a nearby mountain refuge to be handed over to funeral parlour workers.
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