A UK tourist has been killed in a horrific paragliding accident near an 8,500-foot mountain peak in Spain.
The 50-year-old’s body was removed by a police helicopter after an incident on the south side of a peak called Pico Gallinero in the Aragonese Pyrenees.
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The Guardia Civil was alerted around 1:30 p.m. Thursday and agents of the Greim mountain rescue team responded while a police helicopter was mobilized.
They are said to have discovered two more people practicing CPR on the unnamed Briton when they arrived, but he died from the severity of his injuries.
The causes of the accident are now being investigated.
The mountain top is not far from where the British hiker Esther Dingley was found dead last year after her disappearance.
Esther, 37, is presumably fallen after slipping in worn hiking boots without spikes.
The Oxford graduate attempted a solo hike from Spain to France on the mountain range in November 2020.
The same mountain rescue team, based in the Pyrenees town of Benasque, that participated in the search for Esther took part in Thursday’s operation.
The dead man’s body is now in Huesca Provincial Hospital and an autopsy is expected within 48 hours.
The south side of the Gallinero peak, in the municipality of Castejon de Sos, is considered a launching point for paragliders looking to enjoy spectacular views of the Pyrenees, including Spain’s third highest mountain, Mount Aneto.
In June, a 52-year-old man from Barcelona was killed in a previous paragliding tragedy in much the same spot.
Reports at the time linked the tragedy to possible human error.