Woman saved from tree

A French woman had to be rescued by helicopter after she got stuck in a tree where she took refuge from a herd of wild pigs she encountered while strolling in a valley.

The 30-year-old was walking near the southwestern town of Bagneres-de-Luchon when she took fright after seeing the boars and climbed up a nearby tree.

When she later tried to climb down she fell 2m and got stuck so she called rescue services with her GPS-equipped phone.

When rescue workers arrived they decided they would need a helicopter to extricate her safely from the tree.

"She was shivering and suffering slightly from hypothermia" but had no broken bones, said a rescue worker.