
Yes, the Guardia Civil, mountain-rescue service was busy during last month picking up buckled hikers, dented mountain climbers and hobbling barranco descenders.
(COE23) The Guardia Civil received an alert at 00.30h this Monday morning, which triggered a mountain-rescue operation that only concluded at 07.00h with temperatures -10C.
In the space of just four hours during the last Saturday of 2017, mountain-rescue teams had to carry out five separate rescues on the Sierra Nevada