Brit hiker on 6-year Europe tour missing in Pyrenees as partner says ‘I’m broken’
A BRITISH woman has gone missing while hiking alone in the Pyrenees during her six-year camper van tour of Europe.
An urgent search is underway for Esther Dingley, 37, who vanishing after chatting to her partner via Whatsapp last Sunday.
Her solo trip was supposed to end on Wednesday but she hasn't been seen or heard from since, leaving Colegate by her sudden disappearance.
French authorities have launched a desperate for Dingley, who had been traveling in the couple's camper van while Colegate stayed at a farm in Gascony.
The couple started a blog together called "" after they began trekking around in 2014, alongside their five dogs.
"The only purpose of this post is to ask for prayers, thoughts, candles and whatever you have," he wrote.
"I've not been saying anything, but this wonderful person believes in the power of positive thought and right now I'll take anything if it means that she can be found.
"I need her back. I can't face the alternative. I'm heading back up searching now so I can't reply to comments or messages. Sorry for the haste and inadequacy of these words."
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Dingley and Colegate have hiked in the Alps together, crashed a hot air balloon by the Nile, and been diving in the Mediterranean Sea before her disappearance.
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