Fourteen Alpine Rescuers and Thermal Drones Search Mount Olympus for Missing Spanish Climber, 25

Fourteen specializer alpine firefighters and thermal drones are searching the precocious peaks of Mount Olympus for a 25-year-old Spanish climber who failed to get astatine his destination aft mounting retired solo toward Mytikas — the mountain's 2,918-meter acme — and did not look earlier nightfall connected Wednesday.

The hunt was triggered aft the climber's begetter reported him missing to the Spanish Consulate, which alerted section constabulary successful Litochoro.

Rescuers from the 2nd and 8th Special Disaster Response Units are scanning heavy ravines alongside drone pilots arsenic the cognition continues.

The incidental is the 2nd important rescue cognition connected Olympus successful conscionable implicit a week — exigency crews successfully extracted 2 overdue climbers adjacent successful the aforesaid period.

Park rangers person warned that unseasonal high-altitude upwind shifts airs peculiar information connected the mountain's heavy fractured precocious limestone terrain, particularly for solo climbers.