Missing Gransnetter Carol Sheridan - add your tribute here

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First thread was started by Trisagion on Wed 30-Oct-13 15:18:17

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This is to ask for the help of all Mumsnet members, most especially anyone who lives in the Haute Savoie departement.

One of our members, Carol Sheridan, is missing. She is a keen and intrepid hiker and explores the high mountains of the area. She is experienced and resourceful but neither her family nor many friends have had any communication with her since Saturday 27 October.

She may be lost or perhaps had an accident and be awaiting rescue.

She is 73, five foot five tall and drives a black Fiat Panda registration AZ522AP

If you have any information on Carol's whereabouts or the location of her car please contact French Police and her daughter Fiona Conyers [note from MNHQ, we've now removed the email address to respect the family's wish for privacy]

HQ are hoping to post the MISSING poster circulated by her family on here."

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I really wish I could help translate but I never studied French .

It is a pastoral care who discovered the car of Carol Sheridan on a parking of departure of hiking trails, Mieussy. The septuagenarian british resides since three years to about twenty kilometers from here, on the commune of Habère-poche . She was last seen by a neighbor, it.......

A week ago.Since the discovery of its 4x4 Panda, toward 9 o'clock, a twenties of gendarmes and firefighters rapture the sector. Air searches are, for the time being, made impossible because of the weather conditions. The thesis of the accident is now preferred

sorry that's probably not exactly accurate I tried using a translation site.

It sounds as if the car was discovered by the equivalent of our National Park Rangers.

La thèse de l'accident est désormais priviliégiée simply means that the most likely theory is that she has had an accident.

N'a donné aucun signe de vie depuis samedi, means she has given no news since Saturday, rather than no signs of life. It's an expression.

A garde champêtre is a cross between a local bobby (the one I know is attached to the mairie of the village) and a game warden. They are tasked with things like issuing fishing licences etc... among other duties.

duchesse

I don't speak French, but that's what I gathered from translations.

thanks for confirming it. I've just read on GN that there are mountain refuge huts in the area and she probably knows where they are and could've made her way to one of them.

all speculations of course, but little bits like that help to be hopeful I think

I hope they have some tracker dogs...

I meant re your pp. not the fishing licence!

Carol's grandaughter has confirmed that the car has been discovered. She has reinforced the plea not to overshare unofficial rumours.

thanks Psammy

fantastic news!

duchesse
exactly, scent dogs would be the obvious choice!

she did the previous walk in that area in about 6 hours.

if she left from home at 4pm she probably didn't plan a long walk like that, so depending how fast the search party can progress there is a good chance we'll know loads more by this evening.

sorry for doing Miss Marple here, I can't stop thinking about what's realistic/possible.

do tell me to shut up if this is not useful.
I will zip it.

so desperate for good news - especially for her and her family and friends' sake.

praying and hoping...
come on people, come on dogs, come on weather!

Keeping everything crossed

I think we need to wait for the family to release any further news, once they have recieved it themselves and have have time to process it. Which, considering some are in new zealand could take a while. It sounds like the police etc are on the right track now, literally.

The purpose of the threads was to raise awareness in order to get the search underway, and that has been achieved now. In the process, we have all become very eager for every bit of news, naturally. But we really have to wait now for the family to talk when they choose to.

Positive thinking and patience.

psammy

yes, of course.

"go slow to go fast" - Gil Grissom
(Sorry about that too)

and for watchers and waiters.

seems like the real waiting game has started now.

keep hoping

In haste, to bump, but see thread is now stickied (smile)

So pleased to hear that the car has been definitely found and praying that Carol is now found swiftly. I am sure they will use dogs ..... at the least, isn't this the area of mountain guards with St Bernards?

I hope there are lots of teams out searching.

apparently weather is supposed to be better this afternoon - so fingers crossed that helicopters can finally get on with it

In France I don't believe there's a separate fire service and ambulance service. A friend of mine who settled there and married a local etc is a Sapeur-Pompier, and from her description had to do paramedic training AND fire/rescue training at the same level as either profession would in the UK. So the crews out looking will be as brilliantly trained as anyone in the world IYSWIM.

Keeping everything crossed.

Helly, I am sure there are lots of people looking now that they have somewhere to look. There are two trails leading away from the carpark so they will have a lot of ground to cover.