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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Body found in water in search for missing hiker, 65, who vanished on 'Britain's toughest walk' in the Scottish Highlands
A body has been found in the search for a hiker who disappeared while on 'Britain's toughest walk' in the Scottish Highlands. Bernard Trottet, 65, disappeared while traversing across the Cape Wrath path. He was last seen in Corryhully Bothy in Glenfinnan on Tuesday May 27. Scottish cops said the Swiss hiker was planning to walk north to Kinloch Hourn before heading to a campsite in the Morvich area, but he failed to arrive. Following a multi-day search, the force later said a body was found in the water in the Kinloch Hourn area just before 1pm on Monday. Police Scotland said: 'Formal identification has yet to take place, however, the family of Bernard Trottet, who was reported missing in the area, has been informed.' It added that it did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances surrounding the disappearance, and that a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal, Scotland's public prosecution service. The Cape Wrath Trail is a 200-mile route the cuts through the Scottish Highlands and the West Coast of Scotland. It is considered one of the the toughest long distance walks in the UK. The difficulty of the route lies in it being completely unmarked, and running through extremely wild and rugged terrain. The trail is unlike other, prepared and marked routes that walkers can follow with ease. Instead, many parts of the route are pathless, meaning that a high level of navigational skill is required to attempt it. On top of this, there are also several unbridged river crossings that can be dangerous in the wrong circumstances.
Sky News
4 days ago
- General
- Sky News
Bernard Trottet: Body found in search for Swiss hiker missing in Scottish Highlands
A body has been found in the search for a Swiss hiker missing in the Scottish Highlands. Bernard Trottet, 65, disappeared while walking the Cape Wrath Trail. He was last known to be at Corryhully Bothy in Glenfinnan on Tuesday 27 May. Police Scotland said he was planning to walk north to Kinloch Hourn and then on to a campsite in the Morvich area but failed to arrive. The force said a body was found in the water in the Kinlock Hourn area around 12.55pm on Monday. It said: "Formal identification has yet to take place, however, the family of Bernard Trottet, who was reported missing in the area, has been informed." There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances and a report will be submitted to the Procurator Fiscal, police added. The Cape Wrath Trail is a hiking route that runs around 200 miles through the Scottish Highlands and the west coast of Scotland. It is considered one of the most challenging long-distance walks in the UK. Police have been searching for Mr Trottet, with assistance from air support and mountain rescue teams.
The Guardian
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The North review – old friends' trek through the Highlands might be the ultimate hiking film
Shot on Scotland's West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail and telling the story of two friends who walk those 600km, Bart Schrijver's majestic second feature is perhaps the ultimate hiking film. Measuredly paced to let us fully sink into the experience, it understands the rhythms and mental accommodations of long-distance walking; even in its awareness of how its pair of protagonists position themselves on the trail and when they rest, it acknowledges the need for solitude and locating inner truths that often drives these undertakings. Its revelations and epiphanies arise at their own pace, never forced. Lapsed buddies Chris (Bart Harder) and Lluis (Carles Pulido) are reconnecting, backpacks in tow, after 10 years apart. Dutch and Latino respectively, life has taken them in different directions. Chris, judging by the office calls he frequently fends off, is a hectic modern professional, whose next project is kids with his girlfriend. Lluis, on the other hand, doesn't want them and is, in fact, not sure what he wants; he has ditched his job shooting wedding videos and is now looking to find his creativity. Despite the catch-up time, their basic outdoor stances hint at a more profound divergence: Chris lapping up each new vista, Lluis masochistically trudging on. After 2022's Arctic trek Human Nature, Schrijver is well into his directorial stride. Chris and Lluis often appear as minute figures traversing valleys and crags, and – putting human drama into perspective – what we learn about their lives is measured out in sips of spare, allusive dialogue. The director also resists dealing in too much pathetic fallacy; this foreboding landscape is indifferent to the characters' feelings. Big disclosures – about Lluis's health, or a beach breakdown that hints that Chris isn't as stable as he appears – arrive as suddenly as a wild panorama over a hillcrest. Nor is it certain these moments are transformative in the manner of mainstream drama; there and gone as suddenly as the girl walker who likes screaming into the void, they don't necessarily mean more than anything else in nature. Perhaps the film's innate trajectory means Schrijver doesn't strive as hard as he might in search of a structure. But The North has a kind of purifying and uplifting effect that builds as the hikers approach their destination; a reminder for those interested in cinema going the distance, how the medium – in its commitment, immersion and focus – reaches altitudes TV can't touch. The North is on from 31 May.
