Last modified on Sun 20 Dec 2020 10.33 EST
Police in Spain have begun scaling back the search for a British hiker missing in the Pyrenees, almost a month after she disappeared without a trace.
Sharing an update of their investigation into the puzzling disappearance of Esther Dingley, the Guardia Civil also said that they were no longer using helicopters to scan the vast mountain range for signs of the 37-year-old.
A spokeswoman for the force told the
Observer: âOfficers arenât out searching as intensively as they were at the beginning. Theyâre not looking everywhere like they did before.â
The search for Dingley began after she failed to return from a solo trek in the Pyrenees, which straddle the border of Spain and France, last month. She last communicated with her partner of 19 years, Dan Colegate, on 22 November, sending a selfie of herself on the summit of Pic de Sauvegarde.