{"id":2855,"date":"2026-04-12T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/2855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T20:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T20:35:18","slug":"climber-30-dies-after-rockfall-in-montserrat-mountain-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/2855\/","title":{"rendered":"Climber, 30, dies after rockfall in Montserrat mountain range"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MAN who was seriously injured in a rockfall while climbing mountains in northern Spain has succumbed to his injuries in hospital, medical officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old male was one of two climbers who were left in critical condition after several rocks struck the pair while they were traversing a route in Montserrat, Catalunya.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the scene at 4.30pm on Saturday after a walker found a man and a woman lying unconscious.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: \u2018I visited the top of Montserrat in Spain and was blown away by its views and history \u2013 this is how to enjoy the mountain in a day\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"The tragic incident occurred in the Montserrat mountain range in Catalunya. Credit: Olive Press<\/p>\n

Firefighters deployed two aerial units and four ground crews, plus two rescue helicopters from the Emergency Medical System.<\/p>\n

The man was given successful CPR at the scene by paramedics, before being transferred to Vall d\u2019Hebron Hospital in nearby Barcelona by helicopter.<\/p>\n

The woman, also aged 30, was airlifted to Bellvitge Hospital in L\u2019Hospitalet de Llobregat, where she remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

Click here to read more Spain News<\/a> from The Olive Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN who was seriously injured in a rockfall while climbing mountains in northern Spain has succumbed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[92,2046,2047,2048,2049,59,60,17,2050,62],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-barcelona","tag-catalonia","tag-catalunya","tag-climbing","tag-momtserrat","tag-news-spain","tag-newspaper","tag-spain","tag-spain-mountains","tag-the-olive-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}