Do you know how mountain rescues work in Spain? who deals with them? how many take place each year? how much do they cost? In this article we will try to clear up these and other doubts and shed some light on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contrary to what might appear to be the case, the most common rescue situation is not that of a mountaineer in a place of extreme difficulty, but that of a hiker in a place of difficult access.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And the fact is that the increase in accidents and interventions is directly related to the increase in the number of people going to the mountains.<\/strong>no more and no less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Burcio (1997), Rescues in Spain<\/em>In 1995, the Guardia Civil units carried out a total of 487 interventions. Half of those carried out 25 years later, and this is without taking into account those carried out by the regional rescue groups that have appeared during this time, which account for around 60%. A figure that contrasts even more if we take into account the improvements in equipment, weather forecasting and access to information that we have today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reviewing the data for 2018 and 2019 (2020 has been a bit of a rarity as we all know), the Guardia Civil Mountain Service<\/strong> carried out 974 and 981 rescues respectively. Of these, 46% in 2018 and 48% in 2019 were related to hiking. An activity that a priori we can consider easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Among the main causes, we can point to three: a poor planning<\/strong>the overestimation<\/strong> of our possibilities and the recklessness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n