A 62-year-old hiker has been missing since Wednesday in the Canigou massif (Pyrénées-Orientales), AFP learned from the gendarmerie on Saturday.
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Leaving early Wednesday morning, this regular who has already “done this course many times” according to the gendarmes, did not reappear in the evening. His companion then alerted the emergency services, which are still looking for this man from the department.
The soldiers of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon are on site and will continue to comb the area all weekend, using a helicopter, while a Saint-Hubert dog, with a very developed sense of smell, must arrive on site on Saturday or Sunday to go up the hiker’s track from his car.