Wild goat charges at female tourist and pushes her off a cliff while hiking in Spain
A wild mountain goat charged at a Dutch female tourist and pushed her off a cliff before attacking her two friends, knocking one of them unconscious, while they were hiking in the south of Spain. The aggressive ibex sent the 64-year-old woman plummeting 20 metres downwards before she landed on an overhanging ledge.
The Dutch woman, who has not been named, broke both of her wrists in what could have been a fatal incident on May 28th in the Alpujarra hills of Granada. She was walking with two Belgian hikers, who became the next targets for the goat who knocked one of them unconscious in the attack, as reported by Murcia Today.
A local shepherd found the two injured Belgian hikers and an emergency helicopter was scrambled to take them to a local hospital, but rescuers by air were unable to find the Dutch woman and had to pause their search for her at 9pm on May 28th due to bad weather.
The emergency services continued their search on foot and managed to locate the woman and rescue her from the ledge, but the bad weather made it too difficult to airlift her to safety, so the rescuers were forced to shelter her overnight in an abandoned farmhouse.
The next morning, the injured woman was flown to hospital where she was treated for hypothermia and two broken wrists.
Experts said it is currently breeding season for the mountain goats in the Spanish region, meaning the Iberian ibex are particularly aggressive at this time of year. The peak birthing period for the Spanish mountain goats is in mid-May, meaning that with youngsters now in the herd, the adult animals are much more protective.
Spanish mountain goats are coming into contact with humans more frequently due to a rise in tourism in the area.
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