The Guardia Civil were sent out to rescue 20 hikers around the end of last month, lost in  mountains.

The group, that had  set out on a walk in Cerro de Huenes (Monachil) were aged between 68 and 78,

It was around 15.30h on the 27th that the Guardia Civil received an alert to say that this group on an  organised walk had got lost near the peak of Cerro de Huenes.

In fact, it was on their way back to where they had started off (Collado Sevilla) that they inadvertently left the  route and couldn’t find their way back.

Accordingly, officers belonging to the Servicio de Montana de la Guardia Civil spoke with the person who had called and managed to work out where they were, so they explained how to return to the peak and get back onto the normal, route-marked path and once their, to await the rescue-service’s arrival.

Two officers set off in one of their vehicles for the Puente de los Siete Ojos, parked and walked up the path to meet them. Checking that everybody was OK and would have no trouble completing the walk back to their bus, they guided them back.

This is now the fifth rescue mission that the Guardia Civil have had to carry out in the Cerro de Huenes so far this year and this one involving this large group was not the latest rescue; on the 29th two individuals, aged 27 and 30, got lost in exactly the same spot and had to be guided back to their car.

Editorial note: in September 2021 which did an excursion article on this popular hiking area.

(News/Notcias: Monachil, Vega, Granada, Andalucia)