Astonished Spanish rescue team find lost Scottish hiker during search for Jay Slater

Kris Gourlay

1 July 2024 at 4:39 am·2-min read

A Scottish hiker has been rescued by Spanish police during their search for missing teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife.

The major search was temporarily halted after officers received intelligence a man had entered a "difficult" area which was deemed not suitable for travel and did not return to the starting point.

The 51-year-old, who has not been named, was then rescued by local police and was found "tired and disorientated," reports the Daily Mail.

The man had become lost in the Rural de Teno National Park on the Canary Island - the last known location of 19-year-old Jay who went missing while attending a music festival with two friends.

Police said in a social media post: "Locals observed how said hiker entered very early into an area of difficult access not suitable for travel and after several hours passed without him returning to the starting point, they alerted the agents who were at that time in the area. search for missing young man, Jay Slater.

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"Tired and disoriented, he was located by the agents and the rescue team who helped him get out of the ravine."

Jay, from Lancashire, has been missing since Monday, June 17, and was last seen by the owner of a nearby Airbnb. The teenager reportedly walked off along into a mountainous area close to the village of Masca.

This was after he left a rental apartment where he had stayed with two people he met at the NRG music festival. It is understood Jay missed the bus home to where his friends were staying.

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One of those pal's, Lucy Mae, told police she woke up to a phone call from Jay at 8.30am saying "he was lost in the mountains, he wasn't aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on 1 per cent".

Urgent searches by Civil Guard officers, firefighters, and mountain rescuers have been underway in the vast area since Jay's disappearance.

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