{"id":439639,"date":"2025-09-20T23:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439639\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:36:27","slug":"police-appeal-for-missing-edinburgh-hiker-76-who-disappeared-on-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/439639\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for missing Edinburgh hiker, 76, who disappeared on trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Police<\/a> are appealing for information after a missing Edinburgh man who disappeared while on a trek in the highlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ian Currie, 76, is an experienced walker who set off from Glenfinnan to walk the Cape Wrath Trail on Tuesday, September 16. He was due to arrive at Inverie Bunkhouse on the evening of Thursday, 18 September, but failed to arrive and was reported missing to Police that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He is described as being white, around 6ft tall, of medium build, with white hair and wears glasses and is believed to be wearing a black waterproof jacket and carrying a rucksack and a green tent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><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> think he may have strayed from his planned path and could have travelled east from Glenfinnan instead of north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>Sign up for<\/b> <b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Edinburgh Live newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Edinburgh Live newsletters<\/a> <\/b> <b>for more headlines straight to your inbox<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Specialist <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> including mountain rescue, search and rescue dogs association and Lochaber and Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue teams are checking the area for any signs of Ian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They are being assisted by the HM Coastguard helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghlive.co.uk\/all-about\/police-scotland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Inspector;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Inspector<\/a> Kay Macrae said: \u201cIan is an experienced walker, but this terrain can be extremely challenging, especially in difficult weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I am appealing to anyone who may have been walking in the Glenfinnan area to get in touch if they believe they have seen Ian. Any small piece of information could prove to be vital in us locating him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call Police Scotland via 101, quoting incident number 3967 of Thursday, 18 September, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after a missing Edinburgh man who disappeared while on a trek in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,148794,1102,148793,4884,148792,148795,530,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-439639","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-trail","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-glenfinnan","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-ian-currie","14":"tag-inverie-bunkhouse","15":"tag-police-scotland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115239254992875644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439639","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=439639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}