The woman and her companion – a 53-year-old man who was unharmed – were descending in the area of the Gran Diagonal, Spanish news outlet El Pa\u00eds reported. <\/p>\n
Members of the Mountain Rescue and Intervention Group (GREIM) attended the scene, as well as the Huesca Air Unit. <\/p>\n
The woman, a British national who lived in Finland, was pronounced dead and her body was taken to Zaragoza’s Forensic Medicine Institute for a post-mortem.<\/p>\n
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “We are aware of a British woman who has died in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities”.<\/p>\n
An investigation is ongoing, a spokesperson for the Civil Guard told The Sun. <\/p>\n
They said a report would be sent to a “local investigating court along with the post-mortem results”.<\/p>\n
The woman’s death is being treated by the force as a “tragic accident resulting from a fall”, they said. <\/p>\n
The incident follows several other interventions by the Civil Guard’s mountain team in the Pyrenees in the past week. <\/p>\n
Between 26 May and 30 May, the GREIM carried out nine mountain rescues. <\/p>\n
On Monday, the Civil Guard called for hikers to take safety precautions before heading out into the mountains. <\/p>\n
It encouraged them to bring enough water, take charged electronics with location settings enabled, wear sun protection, and to check the route and weather before setting off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman and her companion – a 53-year-old man who was unharmed – were descending in the area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-616312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}