Spanish emergency services workers rescued Wednesday a Dutch woman hiker who spent 18 days trapped at the bottom of a ravine
Spanish emergency services workers rescued Wednesday a Dutch woman hiker who spent 18 days trapped at the bottom of a ravine, surviving by drinking water from a nearby river, police said.
A group of hikers spotted Mary-Anne Goznes, 48, in the ravine near the resort town of Nerja in southern Spain and left her some food before alerting emergency services, who then evacuated her by helicopter.
"She became trapped in a pit near a river, without a rope and unable to ascend on her own," police said in a statement.
The rescue operation was difficult because the woman was in a hard-to-reach place and in "a weak state" after not eating for so many days, it added.
"She thought of eating ants but in the end she could not do it," Bernadette Veeger, a Dutch doctor who lives in southern Spain and spoke to Goznes after the rescue, told the online edition of daily newspaper El Pais.
The woman was taken to hospital for observation. She is "stable, conscious and talking," a hospital spokesman said.
Goznes arrived in Nerja on June 15. She went for a hike on her own the following day and became lost, said a spokesman for her family, Antonio Diaz.
Police were alerted to her disappearance several days later after they had no news from her.
Diaz said the woman endured the time she was trapped in the ravine by thinking of her two adult children.
"She's hungry and tired, he
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