21.02.09 - 09:58 -
Roger at home on Friday with his wife Jane. / E.C.
Sixty-nine-year-old Nerja resident Roger Clark has pledged never to go walking in the mountains alone again after getting lost in the area known as Collado de los Apretaderos, above the Chíllar river, on Thursday night. Luckily, he managed to get a signal on his mobile phone and sent a message for help to his wife Jane.
Jane says that her husband had told her he would be back home by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but at 8.10 p.m. there was still no sign of him. "When I received his message I knew that something was wrong with him and called the police," she explains.
Jane says that her husband had told her he would be back home by 5 o'clock in the afternoon, but at 8.10 p.m. there was still no sign of him. "When I received his message I knew that something was wrong with him and called the police," she explains.
"I wanted to go down to Frigliana but before I knew it it was dark and I couldn't find the path," Roger says. "I was very cold and I hit my head against a rock," he adds.
A search team was organised and twenty-two officers from the Frigiliana Local Police station, the Guardia Civil, fire service and civil protection unit set off in search of the British citizen. Roger was found after a five-hour search at around 2 o'clock in the morning with mild hypothermia and fatigue. "I don't know how to thank the people who found me. I owe them my life," he says.
A search team was organised and twenty-two officers from the Frigiliana Local Police station, the Guardia Civil, fire service and civil protection unit set off in search of the British citizen. Roger was found after a five-hour search at around 2 o'clock in the morning with mild hypothermia and fatigue. "I don't know how to thank the people who found me. I owe them my life," he says.
