She was very lucky.
A 36-year-old Breton hiker was lost in the mountains on Tuesday in the Aldudes sector, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
She managed to post a message on Facebook at the last minute, before her phone went out for lack of battery, says
La République des Pyrénées
.
One of his contacts on the social network warned the firefighters at around 6 p.m.
The latter were able to geolocate the young woman thanks to her Facebook post.
In coordination with the Spanish firefighters in Navarre, the firefighters of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques managed to find the hiker, tired but safe and sound, around 7:30 p.m.
During the same evening, the firefighters intervened by helicopter to rescue a group of three lost hikers near Larrau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
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