Palma.At 8.30pm on Tuesday night the alarm was raised by the victim's two climbing companions when they returned to their Can Picafort hotel after having spent three hours searching for their colleague in the Mortitx area of Escorca in the mountains.
Apparently, 24-year-old Thomas John D. became separated from his two fellow climbers and began heading back along the eastern route they had taken.
However, it appears that as dusk fell and visibility grew low, the young man from Leeds slipped down a well.
A team of three Guardia Civil mountain rescuers and two fire fighters were sent up into the area late on Tuesday night and continued the search through the night.
Eventually, they were given extra support by another team of two Guardia Civil and a fire fighter as search conditions became dangerous in the treacherous ground. Eventually, at 4am, the body of the Briton was found some six metres down one of the many natural wells in the mountains.
After a lengthy and complicated operation, the body was eventually brought to the surface and at 8.30am it was airlifted off the mountain and flown to the Forensic Institute where the autopsy will be carried out.
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