Esther Dingley cops analyse human remains found near to mountain summit where missing Brit hiker last made contact
POLICE investigating the disappearance of a British hiker are analysing bones found near the mountain summit where she last made contact.
Esther Dingley vanished in November last year while climbing the 8,796ft Pico Salvaguardia in the Pyrenees.
Esther Dingley disappeared in November 2020 while on a solo hiking tripCredit: Refer to Caption 
She had been touring Europe in a campervan with her partner Dan ColegateCredit: Tim Stewart A mountain runner raised the alarm on Friday afternoon after discovering what he believed could be the remains of a body.
Spanish police visited the area but later alerted their French counterparts after finding the spot was just over the border.
Officers are now trying to confirm whether they are human bones and, if so, who they could belong to.
A Civil Guard source said: “A mountain runner has found what could be human bones just over the French side of the border at Puerto de la Glera.
“He called the Civil Guard who went to the area but after confirming it was on the French side of the border they called the French Gendarmerie who went to the spot and have now taken charge of things.
“They appear to be human remains but it will up to French police now to analyse them.â€
Another Spanish source said it appeared “90 per cent certain†they were human remains.
Puerto de la Glera in France is close to the summit where Oxford graduate Esther last made contact with her partner Dan Colegate around 4pm on November 22 last year.
Specialist officers have carried out extensive searches of the area around the Puerto de la Glera hiking trail.
Esther’s partner claimed in a recent BBC interview he “could no longer agree†with the idea she had suffered an accident.
He said: “The search has been so prolonged and so intense, that as far as I’m concerned the probability of an accident is now less than the probability of a criminal act.â€
Esther and Dan had been travelling together in the Pyrenees before the former personal trainer headed off on a four-week solo hiking trip.
But just three days before she was due to return to the village of Benasque, Spain, the travel blogger vanished.
A total of six people have gone missing in the same region as Esther in the past 15 years, authorities have revealed.
Esther and partner Dan in September 2020 
Dan said he 'could no longer agree' with the idea she had suffered an accidentCredit: Tim Stewart Brit hiker Esther Dingley dances on top off a mountain during her six-year tour of Europe
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