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On or about 23 July 2021, human remains were found near the [https://www.summitpost.org/port-de-la-gl-re/647214 Port de la Glère], a few kilometers to the west of where Dingley was last seen.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Penza|first=Natalia|date=2021-07-23|title=Police searching for missing hiker find bones near where she disappeared|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/breaking-police-searching-missing-hiker-24605324|access-date=2021-08-01|website=mirror|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Press Association |title=Esther Dingley family call for clarity after claim human remains found in Pyrenees |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/24/esther-dingley-missing-british-hiker-family-clarity-report-human-remains-found-pyrenees |work=The Guardian |date=2021-07-24 |access-date=2021-07-30}}</ref> On 30 July 2021, following [[DNA profiling|DNA testing]], the remains – part of a human skull – were confirmed to be Dingley's.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vinter |first=Robyn |date=2021-07-30|title=Esther Dingley: remains found in Pyrenees are missing Briton's|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/30/esther-dingley-remains-found-pyrenees-are-missing-britons|access-date=2021-07-30|work=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> On 9 August 2021, Daniel Colegate, Esther Dingley's partner of 20 years, found the rest of her body.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Lyons|first1=Izzy|last2=Rosman|first2=Rebecca|date=2021-08-10|title=Body of missing British hiker Esther Dingley discovered by boyfriend|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/10/body-missing-british-hiker-esther-dingley-discovered-boyfriend/|access-date=2021-08-10|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Body of British hiker Esther Dingley found by partner in Pyrenees |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/10/body-british-hiker-esther-dingley-found-partner-pyrenees |work=The Guardian |publisher=The Guardian |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>Colegate was questioned by police, who nevertheless say that he is not a suspect and that an accident remains the most likely cause of Dingley's death.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-08-12|title=Hiker Esther Dingley's boyfriend questioned 'extensively' by police after her body was found|url=https://news-logics.com/hiker-esther-dingleys-boyfriend-questioned-extensively-by-police-after-her-body-was-found/|access-date=2021-08-13|website=News Logics|language=en-US}}</ref>
On or about 23 July 2021, human remains were found near the Port de la Glère, a few kilometers to the west of where Dingley was last seen.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Penza|first=Natalia|date=2021-07-23|title=Police searching for missing hiker find bones near where she disappeared|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/breaking-police-searching-missing-hiker-24605324|access-date=2021-08-01|website=mirror|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=Press Association |title=Esther Dingley family call for clarity after claim human remains found in Pyrenees |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/24/esther-dingley-missing-british-hiker-family-clarity-report-human-remains-found-pyrenees |work=The Guardian |date=2021-07-24 |access-date=2021-07-30}}</ref> On 30 July 2021, following [[DNA profiling|DNA testing]], the remains – part of a human skull – were confirmed to be Dingley's.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vinter |first=Robyn |date=2021-07-30|title=Esther Dingley: remains found in Pyrenees are missing Briton's|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/30/esther-dingley-remains-found-pyrenees-are-missing-britons|access-date=2021-07-30|work=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> On 9 August 2021, Daniel Colegate, Esther Dingley's partner of 20 years, found the rest of her body.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Lyons|first1=Izzy|last2=Rosman|first2=Rebecca|date=2021-08-10|title=Body of missing British hiker Esther Dingley discovered by boyfriend|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/10/body-missing-british-hiker-esther-dingley-discovered-boyfriend/|access-date=2021-08-10|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web |title=Body of British hiker Esther Dingley found by partner in Pyrenees |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/10/body-british-hiker-esther-dingley-found-partner-pyrenees |work=The Guardian |publisher=The Guardian |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>Colegate was questioned by police, who nevertheless say that he is not a suspect and that an accident remains the most likely cause of Dingley's death.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-08-12|title=Hiker Esther Dingley's boyfriend questioned 'extensively' by police after her body was found|url=https://news-logics.com/hiker-esther-dingleys-boyfriend-questioned-extensively-by-police-after-her-body-was-found/|access-date=2021-08-13|website=News Logics|language=en-US}}</ref>


On 13 August 2021 the investigation team announced that it was believed Dingley's death was due to an accident <ref>{{cite web |title=Esther Dingley: Hiker's Pyrenees death an accident, police say |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58205386 |work=BBC |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref> though investigations at that point were still ongoing.
On 13 August 2021 the investigation team announced that it was believed Dingley's death was due to an accident <ref>{{cite web |title=Esther Dingley: Hiker's Pyrenees death an accident, police say |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58205386 |work=BBC |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref> though investigations at that point were still ongoing.

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Esther Dingley
DisappearedNovember 22, 2020 (age 37)
Pic de Sauvegarde, France
StatusDeceased
Known forHiking around Europe and blogging

Esther Dingley was a British woman who disappeared while hiking in the Pyrenees in November 2020.[1][2] On 23 July, 2021, part of her skull was found near a track by mountain runners. On 9 August 2021, her partner Daniel Colegate found her other remains.[3]

Background

Dingley and her partner Dan Colegate, met while students at Wadham College, Oxford.[4] They began hiking around Europe in 2014, living in a campervan and recording their experiences in a blog. They started their journey after Colegate had depression and Dingley chronic fatigue, they had cancelled their wedding and Colegate had nearly died from necrotising fasciitis which he had contracted during surgery.[5][6] [7] On the day of Dingley's last known communication, which was with Colegate on 22 November, the lifestyle of the two had been profiled on the front page of the BBC News website.[8] The BBC story, written while Dingley had left on a journey alone, includes a contemporary interview with Colegate, who was house-sitting in France, and Dingley, via a remote video link from the couple's campervan. Other articles about their trip and lifestyle appeared about the same time.[9] At Colegate and Dingley's website, where Colegate's self-published books can be purchased, Colegate said he was in charge of publicity for the pair.

Disappearance

Dingley and Colegate completed an 80-day unbroken hiking trek through the Alps on the Via Alpina in late October.[10] They took up temporary residence in a borrowed gite in Gascony. Six days later, Dingley decided at short notice to set off on a solo trip in the campervan.

On 21 November, Dingley set off from Benasque in Spain for a multi-day hike. On 22 November at around 4pm, Dingley sent Colegate short text messages via WhatsApp while on top of Pic de Sauvegarde.[1] Colegate then made a video-call to Dingley lasting around 90 seconds. She planned to spend the night in Refuge Vénasque in France.[1] It is not clear whether she did, in fact, spend the night there. Three days later, on 25 Nov, Dingley was reported missing by Colegate, who said this was the day Dingley was due to return to the gite in Gascony from her solo trip. Dingley is not known to have communicated with anyone else during these three days.[11][12][2] Colegate says that for the period Dingley was solo travelling, he stayed 100 miles away at the borrowed gite in Gascony.[1]

The Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne confirmed that they were searching for Dingley.[1] Search teams and a helicopter were deployed to the search.[13] Colegate went to Luchon to take part in the search for Dingley.[13]

A witness claimed to have seen someone sleeping in the camper van belonging to Dingley ten days after she disappeared. This claim was later dismissed by the Spanish Police as a light was left on by them by mistake after searching in the camper.[14]

In early December 2020, authorities announced that the search had halted due to heavy snow.[11][12]

In February 2021, Colegate said that he was convinced that Dingley was "taken against her will" and that "someone was involved".[15] He also suggested that Dingley may have been killed by hunters.[16]

In spring and early summer 2021, the physical search for Dingley in the Pyrenees was resumed by both Colegate alone and by the French and Spanish authorities.[17][18][19]

Colegate is being represented by LBT Global. LBT Global changed its name from the Lucie Blackman Trust, and announced an intended expansion of its activities, in the days before Dingley's disappearance following a split from the Blackman family.[2][20]

Remains found

On or about 23 July 2021, human remains were found near the Port de la Glère, a few kilometers to the west of where Dingley was last seen.[21][22] On 30 July 2021, following DNA testing, the remains – part of a human skull – were confirmed to be Dingley's.[23] On 9 August 2021, Daniel Colegate, Esther Dingley's partner of 20 years, found the rest of her body.[24] [25]Colegate was questioned by police, who nevertheless say that he is not a suspect and that an accident remains the most likely cause of Dingley's death.[26]

On 13 August 2021 the investigation team announced that it was believed Dingley's death was due to an accident [27] though investigations at that point were still ongoing.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Parveen, Nazia (29 November 2020). "UK woman who has travelled Europe for six years goes missing in Pyrenees". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Esther Dingley: Missing Briton was 'experienced hiker and loved life'". BBC News. 15 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  3. ^ Lyons, Izzy; Rosman, Rebecca (10 August 2021). "Body of missing British hiker Esther Dingley discovered by boyfriend". The Telegraph.
  4. ^ "wadhamoxford". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-08-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)[better source needed]
  5. ^ "Necrotising fasciitis". nhs.uk. October 19, 2017.
  6. ^ "'Life started when I almost died': the couple who left everything..." AlKhaleej Today. November 23, 2020.
  7. ^ Madrid, David Brown | Adam Sage, Paris | Lucinda Elliott. "Esther Dingley 'may have deliberately gone missing to retain nomadic lifestyle'" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Leatherdale, Duncan (22 November 2020). "Van life: Durham couple's six years on the road (and counting)". BBC News. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  9. ^ "Durham couple launch book series inspired by van adventure with five dogs". The Northern Echo.
  10. ^ "Information Pack Regarding The Disappearance of Esther Dingley from the Pyrenees mountains in November 2020" (PDF). LBT Global Hotline. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  11. ^ a b "Esther Dingley: Missing hiker search 'off until weather improves'". BBC News. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  12. ^ a b Stubley, Peter (5 December 2020). "Esther Dingley: Search for missing British hiker halted due to bad weather". The Independent. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  13. ^ a b "Esther Dingley search: Six teams look for her in Pyrenees". BBC News. 29 November 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  14. ^ "Missing hiker Esther Dingley's campervan 'spotted with someone sleeping inside'". The New Zealand Herald. 11 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  15. ^ "Esther Dingley: Missing hiker 'taken against will'". BBC News. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
  16. ^ Paris, David Brown | Adam Sage. "Boyfriend fears missing hiker Esther Dingley was attacked by hunters" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  17. ^ "Esther Dingley: Missing hiker's boyfriend resumes search alone". BBC News. 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  18. ^ "Esther Dingley: Police search for missing British hiker resumes". BBC News. June 15, 2021.
  19. ^ Reporter, Staff (June 15, 2021). "Police in Spain resume search for British hiker Esther Dingley as snow thaws in Pyrenees".
  20. ^ "Family step away from Lucie Blackman Trust, which rebrands as LBT Global". Isle of Wight News from OnTheWight. November 10, 2020.
  21. ^ Penza, Natalia (2021-07-23). "Police searching for missing hiker find bones near where she disappeared". mirror. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  22. ^ Press Association (2021-07-24). "Esther Dingley family call for clarity after claim human remains found in Pyrenees". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  23. ^ Vinter, Robyn (2021-07-30). "Esther Dingley: remains found in Pyrenees are missing Briton's". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-07-30.
  24. ^ Lyons, Izzy; Rosman, Rebecca (2021-08-10). "Body of missing British hiker Esther Dingley discovered by boyfriend". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-08-10.
  25. ^ "Body of British hiker Esther Dingley found by partner in Pyrenees". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  26. ^ "Hiker Esther Dingley's boyfriend questioned 'extensively' by police after her body was found". News Logics. 2021-08-12. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
  27. ^ "Esther Dingley: Hiker's Pyrenees death an accident, police say". BBC. BBC. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
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