A Scottish hiker has been rescued by Spanish police during a search for missing teenager Jay Slater.
The 51-year-old man had become lost in the Rural de Teno National Park in Tenerife - the last known location of 19-year-old Jay.
Police in Asomada Canyon found the hiker, who has not be named, on Friday while searching for the apprentice bricklayer, The Daily Mail reported.
They described the man as "tired and disorientated" when he was found.
Police said in a social media post: "Locals observed how said hiker entered very early into an area of difficult access not suitable for travel and after several hours passed without him returning to the starting point, they alerted the agents who were at that time in the area. search for missing young man, Jay Slater.
"Tired and disoriented, he was located by the agents and the rescue team who helped him get out of the ravine."
Jay has been missing on the holiday island since Monday, June 17, and was last seen by the owner of an Airbnb.
The teenager reportedly walked off alone into a mountainous area in the Rural de Teno Park, close to the village of Masca, after leaving an Airbnb rental apartment where he had stayed with two people he met at the NRG music festival.
It's thought that he missed the bus to reach friends at the south of the island, an area popular with British tourists.
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One of those pal's Lucy Mae told police she woke up to a phone call from Jay at 8.30am saying “he was lost in the mountains, he wasn’t aware of his surroundings, he desperately needed a drink and his phone was on 1%”.
Shortly before vanishing, Jay had been messaging friends on social media Snapchat and seemed in a normal and stable state of mind.
His phone died around 8.50am, with his last known location registered near a hiking trail, several hundred feet above the small village of Masca.
Urgent searches by Civil Guard officers, firefighters, and mountain rescuers have been underway in the vast area since Jay's disappearance.
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