10 Apr, 2023 @ 15:45
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Man rescued after getting lost on Marbella’s La Concha mountain

Agentes De La Guarcia Civil Buscan Una Pantera Negra Que Ha Sido Vista Cerca De Granada
Civil Guards and Environmental Agents are looking for a black panther that was sighted by residents of the town of Ventas de Huelma, near Granada on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Álex Cámara/NurPhoto)

A HIKER had to spend a night on Marbella’s La Concha mountain even after rescuers had found him the previous evening.

The 30-year-old man had called for help at 7.30pm on Saturday after he got lost while trying to descend from the peak that overlooks the Costa del Sol.

Marbella fire service, medics and the Guardia Civil’s GREAS mountain rescue team were scrambled, with the latter spotting the hiker as darkness fell.

Agentes De La Guarcia Civil Buscan Una Pantera Negra Que Ha Sido Vista Cerca De Granada
Photo by Álex Cámara/NurPhoto via Cordon Press

But they could not reach him due to a deep ravine. They therefore decided that the hikler should stay where he was until a helicopter could rescue him at first light on Sunday.

He was then taken to hospital suffering from symptoms of exhaustion and dehydration.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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