Spanish Police Rescue Two Stranded Climbers in the Dark

Murillo de Gállego, Spain – Spanish police rescued two stranded climbers from a rock face in the dark after the pair were left cut off at night without lights.

Footage released by the Guardia Civil shows helmeted rescuers with headlamps and climbing harnesses working on a steep, rocky slope in the dark, helping the pair along the cliff on Monday, November 9.

The two people, aged 64 and 67, had been climbing on the Peña Rueba massif in the municipality of Murillo de Gállego and were left cut off on a stretch of cliffs and ravines after nightfall, the force said. Specialists from the GREIM mountain unit in Huesca carried out the night rescue.