The Guardia Civil estimate that 32-year-old Briton, Alexander Johnson, was carried almost three kilometres by the sheer force of the torrent of water that killed him on Tuesday.
His body was found on Friday morning at the mouth of the Torrent de Pareis in Sa Calobra. The body was in a large pool that had been some two metres deep on Thursday. The water had subsided considerably by Friday morning, and a Guardia Civil helicopter detected what looked like a body.
Guardia divers and the mountain rescue team went to the area, where they recovered the body.
Rescuers had very little hope of finding him alive. On Thursday they discovered trousers and a shoe that belonged to him.
An autopsy will seek to establish if he died by drowning or because of the force of water which would have dragged him several metres.
He went missing on Tuesday after the area in the Tramuntana Mountains was hit by torrential rain. The body of his partner, 26-year-old Sarah Jane Thompson, was found on Wednesday.
I hike a lot and always check the weather for the region, usually on multiple sites too. Even on seemingly calm days.
There was an orange alert in the mountains for that time. No one should have been hiking in the mountains. The rescue services must be despairing. Why were they there? Did they not get the warnings or did they ignore them?
Either way two lives tragically lost.
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I hike a lot and always check the weather for the region, usually on multiple sites too. Even on seemingly calm days. There was an orange alert in the mountains for that time. No one should have been hiking in the mountains. The rescue services must be despairing. Why were they there? Did they not get the warnings or did they ignore them? Either way two lives tragically lost.
R.I.P. Well done to all those involved in the search.