TOULOUSE: French police were today searching for a 67-year-old British hiker who has been missing in the Pyrenees for five days, prosecutors said.
The retired doctor on holiday was last heard from near the ski resort of Guzet on Tuesday, the prosecutor’s office in the southern town of Foix said.
At around 4pm local time on Tuesday he had sent “a message to his family, saying he had fallen and was injured”, it said.
Police have been sweeping the area with the help of sniffer dogs and a helicopter since Wednesday.
They were unable to geolocate his phone, but did find his car the day after he disappeared near the ski resort.
His son said the retired doctor, who had been living in the southern region of Lot-et-Garonne, was traveling alone and camping.