Searching for the missing British hiker Esther Dingley is 'impossible' Spanish police have said, as rescuers all by give up due to vicious snow storms blocking the mountain trails in the Pyrenees where she was last seen.

Spain's Guardia Civil’s Mountain Rescue brigade in Benasque abandoned their hunt for the 37-year-old Briton on Friday ahead of blizzards and sub-zero temperatures.