The Mountain Rescue Service (Sereim) of the Guardia Civil began searching for a mountaineer of English origin who had left his hotel in Pradollano ski area on Sunday at 5am intending to summit Mulhacen and return by noon. By Sunday night he had not returned and his wife alerted the rescue services.
Jan 052010
The rescue services of the Guardia Civil rescued 2 mountaineers who had been stranded since Sunday at the Cariguela hut. With no food and only snow melt to drink they eventually rang 112 and alerted the rescue services.
The recent statement from the spanish government that they intend to charge for rescue services, if it is found that the rescued were “negligent” (whatever that means?), brings into question the increased need for insurance cover. See http://www.sierra-nevada-news.com/2009/10/paying-rescue-sierra-nevada-negligence/ for further details. If coming out to visit the Sierra Nevada as part of our mountaineering, trekking, skiing [...]
Mountain Rescue and Intervention (Sereim) of the Guardia Civil had to go to the rescue recently on the northern face of Veleta, one of whom was wounded with polytrauma and transferred to a hospital in Granada. The Guardia Civil was called at 15.30 Sunday last. One of the mountaineers had fallen in the Corral del [...]
