The body of a man was pulled from a loch on the Isle of Skye at the weekend.
Police Scotland confirmed last night that the body of a 68-year-oldman was found near to an unmanned fishing boat on Loch Dunvegan.
A member of the public raised the alarm at about 1.30pm on Saturday after spotting the boat near the pier.
Searches were carried out by emergency services, including the Coastguard and the RNLI, and the body of the man was found at about 3.10pm
Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
A spokesman said: “Concerns were raised by a member of the public regarding an unmanned fishing boat off the pier at Loch Dunvegan.
“Emergency services including Coastguard and RNLI were subsequently mobilised to carry out searches in the immediate area.
“Around 3.10pm the body of a 68-year-old male was recovered in proximity to the fishing boat, but despite resuscitation efforts was later confirmed deceased.
“There are no apparent suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of this male and family have requested that their privacy be respected at this time.”
Meanwhile, mountain rescuers searched tirelessly for 10 hours around the hills of Glen Coe at the weekend in a double emergency.
In the first incident two cold and wet walkers from the Glasgow area were rescued after getting lost in mist 2600ft up on a mountain ridge.
Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team had recovered the body of a hiker who plunged more than 320 feet to his death in the same area on Thursday.
Police Scotland said that around noon on Saturday the two stranded men raised the alarm that they were stuck on the 3,127ft high Aonach Eagach ridge in the north of Glen Coe.
The mountain rescue team were sent to try and extract them – with the low cloud conditions making if difficult for a helicopter to winch the walkers off.
At around 3.45pm the stranded pair, in their 40s, were found by the rescuers and walked off the hill by 7pm – but two hours later the 13 members of the team were out again to their fourth call out in two days.
This time a couple, in their 60s, got separated from a party of walkers who were heading to Blackwater Reservoir.
After searching for two hours the pair were located on a track near the reservoir by estate staff.
Brian Bathurst, deputy leader of Glencoe MRT, said: “It was dark and their mobile phone had gone flat. They were lagging behind the group they were with and got separated.
“The rest of the group tried to find them without success and then called us out. They were found on an estate track near the reservoir and were fine.
“In the earlier rescue the two guys had intended to descend on the south side of the ridge but got themselves into a gully and in low cloud. We had to short rope them out and get them down. They were cold and wet and had simply lost their way. They had set out at 6am.
“It has been a very busy period. We did not get back until midnight and the team has put in some hours and done amazingly well.”
Late on Thursday, Glencoe MRT ended an 11 hour search operation for a hiker who fell to his death after deciding to quit his attempt to reach the summit of one of the area’s iconic mountains.
In a recovery operation, the rescuers abseiled several times over a seven hour period to extract, and then get the walker’s body off the mountain in Glen Coe.
The man in his 20s was among a group of four walkers from the Edinburgh area who were attempting to scale the 3090 feet high Am Bodach.
A police spokeswoman said there were no apparent suspicious circumstances but the death was currently “unexplained.”
