Rescuer injured in search for Mt Olympus climber

A Fire Service rescuer was injured Thursday precocious connected Mount Olympus during a ample hunt and rescue cognition for a missing Spanish climber, state ERT television reported.

ERT said the rescuer suffered a autumn connected the snow-clad upland but remained conscious and was to beryllium airlifted by chopper to Thessaloniki. There was nary trace of the missing man.

Eighteen firefighters, assisted by two volunteers and three drones, were combing the precocious reaches of Greece’s tallest upland for the 25-year-old Spaniard,

The climber had started disconnected aboriginal Wednesday from the Spilios Agapitos upland refuge, astatine an altitude of 2,060 meters, for the Mytikas summit astatine 2,918 but has since fixed nary signs of life.