She had gone on a hike on Sunday November 22 in the Pyrenees, near Bagnères-de-Luchon, but had not returned the following Wednesday as planned.
Ester Dingley, a 37-year-old English hiker, had disappeared last fall and a lot of research had been launched to find this blogger recognized across the Channel.
Hikers found a few days ago human bones that could be his, near Bagnères indicates a source close to the investigation.
It is about a piece of human skull "carrying remains of hair", discovered "near a hiking trail at Port de la Gléré", where bones "of animal origin" were also found.
DNA expertise
A DNA expertise has been entrusted to the Toulouse forensic laboratory which will have to determine whether it is indeed the British.
The presence of human and animal bones suggests that they could have been moved by an animal, because the area had been combed through by the gendarmes.
Esther Dingley had passed through Spain at the end of October to tackle this hike, starting from the Pic de Safeguard, between Spain and France, spending a night at the Vénasque refuge.
It was her companion, who had remained in France and with whom she had been blogging for six years, who had raised the alarm.
The Saint-Gaudens prosecutor's office had entrusted the investigation of this disappearance to the gendarmes of the Saint-Gaudens research brigade and the Toulouse research section.
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