{"id":24447,"date":"2026-05-16T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24447\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:09:10","slug":"missing-brit-found-dead-after-days-long-search-in-spanish-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/24447\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Brit found dead after days-long search in Spanish national park"},"content":{"rendered":"

The body of a British hiker who has been missing since Thursday has been found in Picos de Europa National Park in Spain<\/p>\n

12:33, 16 May 2026Updated 12:39, 16 May 2026<\/p>\n

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The body was found in Picos de Europa National Park in Spain (file)(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A British hiker has been found dead in Spain after going missing earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The 61-year-old was reported missing on Thursday in the vicinity of the Canal de Moe\u00f1o, in the municipality of Posada de Valde\u00f3n, within the Picos de Europa National Park.<\/p>\n

He was found in the Moe\u00f1o canal, according to sources from the 112 Emergency Center of Castilla y Le\u00f3n. The Civil Guard will be in charge of the extraction of the body, Europa Press<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

The Civil Protection and Emergency Agency of the Junta de Castilla y Le\u00f3n had launched a large search operation to locate the Brit, including using a rescue helicopter.<\/p>\n

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It was the hiker himself who first alerted authorities, ringing to report he felt disoriented and tired while returning from a route towards Ca\u00edn.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for a regional government-run emergency response coordination centre said at the time: “We are coordinating a rescue that began at 7.11pm on Thursday after receiving a 999 call from the Castilla and Leon province 999 ops centre, informing a British mountaineer aged 61 had become disorientated when he was doing a mountain route in the Picos de Europa.<\/p>\n

“At that moment, he didn\u2019t know where he was, the weather<\/a> conditions were bad, with wind, low clouds and intermittent rain, and he said he was exhausted.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a British hiker who has been missing since Thursday has been found in Picos de…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[695,1988,17],"class_list":["post-24447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-breaking-news","tag-missing-persons","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}