As we were making our way up the Aven yesterday morning, we heard this plaintive bleating and eventually found this lost lamb. I naïvely thought that someone would be looking for it, but a lady hiker who showed up minutes later told us that this was clearly not the case, that shepherds often did not go out of their way for one animal. She offered to carry the lamb back to the valley and the herd. We later got an email from her saying that she had talked to the shepherd, had learned that this lamb was 5 days old, 3 of which it had spent alone in the hills. He thought it would not survive long in the herd and would soon make good meat for his dogs! Our new friend thus took the lamb home where the little one is now being raised with a bottle.