By Richard Smith
The Daily Mirror
BRECON BEACONS, Wales — A mountain guide feared dead on a 2,400-ft peak was found alive yesterday — by a BBC crew sent to film the search for him.
Steve Walker, 34, vanished for 24 hours in shocking weather on the Brecon Beacons while leading four inexperienced walkers.
A six-hour search involving 45 police, helicopter crews, tracker dogs and mountain rescue volunteers failed to find any sign of him.
But then he was spotted by the camera crew as they set up equipment near the village of Pontneddfechan.
BBC Wales reporter Gwenfair Griffith wrote on Twitter: “Steve Walker reappears. Our reporting team giving him water.”
It is thought Steve, from Romford, Essex, had gone off alone to check the group’s location but fell down a 50ft ravine, injuring his leg.
He finally managed to scramble out.
The party he guided made it to safety by themselves.
Police said: “It is a great relief Steve’s been found.”
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