{"id":106437,"date":"2025-05-16T14:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106437\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:03:17","slug":"major-coastline-search-for-edinburgh-man-who-vanished-on-hiking-trip-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/106437\/","title":{"rendered":"Major coastline search for Edinburgh man who vanished on hiking trip days ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for help in finding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/missing-people\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:missing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">missing<\/a> Edinburgh man who had travelled to the Scottish Highlands.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ryle, travelled from the city to Cape Wrath on Friday, May 9, where he was last seen on Monday, May 12 at around 10am.<\/p>\n<p>While travelling to Cape Wrath, the 54-year-old met a number of local people but when he failed to return home from the trip, concerns were raised.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/news\/edinburgh-news\/scottish-family-arrive-spanish-airport-31654899?int_source=nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Scottish family arrive at Spanish airport to discover easyJet seats &#039;don&#039;t exist&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Scottish family arrive at Spanish airport to discover easyJet seats &#8216;don&#8217;t exist&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/major-edinburgh-city-centre-street-211521362.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Major Edinburgh city centre street taped off as police race to &#039;ongoing incident&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major Edinburgh city centre street taped off as police race to &#8216;ongoing incident&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark is around 5ft 8 inches in height with a slim build. He was last seen wearing light-coloured trousers and a dark grey top. He was carrying a red and black backpack.<\/p>\n<p><b>Join<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/DBFongo3zQS6P8RfPA1ryO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live&#039;s Whatsapp Community here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> <b> Edinburgh Live&#8217;s Whatsapp Community here <\/b> <\/a> <b>and get the latest news sent straight to your messages<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Officers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Officers<\/a> launched a search operation with assistance from the RNLI, HM Coastguard, Assynt Mountain Rescue and search and rescue dog association.<\/p>\n<p>A search of the coastline resumed on Friday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p>Officers are continuing to ask for information and are appealing for friends and family of Mark, who lived in Edinburgh, to come forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sergeant;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sergeant<\/a> Jo Macleod added: \u201cMark\u2019s life has been in Edinburgh and officers are continuing enquiries to locate any extended family and friends of Mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would ask anyone who recently saw or spoke to Mark to contact us. If anyone has any information, please do get in touch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Police Scotland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Police Scotland<\/a> via 101, quoting incident number 1385 of Thursday, 14 May, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for help in finding a missing Edinburgh man who had travelled to the Scottish Highlands.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,48790,1102,4884,48791,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-106437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cape-wrath","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-mark-ryle","13":"tag-police-scotland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}