Irish lady, 75, falls 60ft to her death from Majorca cliff path whilst climbing with a group of visitors
- Tragedy occurred at Pas d’en Segarra, a modest overhang on a preferred cliff route
- Law enforcement mountaineers and firefighters responded, but they could not help save her
- The lifeless lady is thought to have been mountaineering the five-hour Puig Roig circuit
An Irish female fell to her death from a cliff route in Majorca on Sunday when she was mountaineering with a group of fellow visitors.
The 75-year-outdated shed her stability and plunged extra than 60 toes as she was out with the team of close to a dozen other international hikers.
Law enforcement mountaineers and firefighters were amid the emergency responders mobilised just after the alarm was elevated about midday on Sunday.
An Irish girl fell to her loss of life from a cliff path in Majorca on Sunday though she was mountaineering with a team of travelers. Pictured: Hikers are witnessed going for walks the Puig Roig circuit (file image)
But there was absolutely nothing they could do to help save her lifestyle and her physique was taken out by a Civil Guard helicopter to a heliport at the island’s Inca Clinic.
The tragedy occurred at Pas d’en Segarra, a smaller overhang on a cliff that a route well-known with Sunday walkers runs by means of.
The useless lady, who has not however been named, is believed to have been mountaineering the five-hour Puig Roig circuit, a scenic extensive loop all over the foundation of a mountain named Puig Roig in the municipality of Escorca in north-west Majorca.
The classic route delivers wonderful panoramic sights of the island’s north coast and goes earlier an outdated law enforcement barracks crafted as portion of the struggle in opposition to tobacco and liquor smugglers who made use of to run in the area.
Some of the people accompanying the accident target, who law enforcement mentioned had been all Irish, are reported to have witnessed the tragedy.
It was not quickly very clear if the team provided the woman’s kin and exactly where she was from in Eire.
A spokesman for the Civil Guard, confirming the incident yesterday, stated: ‘A 75-year-previous Irish lady died nowadays soon after struggling an accident even though she was executing a hike in the spot.
The 75-year-previous shed her equilibrium and plunged more than 60 feet as she was out with the team of all-around a dozen other international hikers. Pictured: A woman is seen looking into Torrent de Pareis, with Puig Roig mountain peak in the distance, Majorca, Spain (file picture)
‘The victim fell from a peak of about 20 metres immediately after losing her equilibrium, suffering really serious head accidents which induced her loss of life in the spot wherever she had her accident.’
A effectively-put supply additional: ‘She was the oldest of a group of all over 12 men and women who were all Irish. She strike her head when she fell and died just about instantaneously.’
A submit-mortem is owing to acquire location in the coming hours and a regimen investigation has been released by a community court.
The route the useless female is thought to have been carrying out is a single of the basic mountaineering routes in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range which is around 50 miles extensive.
It stretches all-around 50 miles from Andratx in the south-west to the Cap de Formentor in the far north of the island.
In 2011 it was awarded UNESCO Planet Heritage position.
