The family of a British tourist missing in the Swiss Alps since last Tuesday have said he seems "to have vanished into thin air".

Posters have been put up around the Swiss town of Wengen in an attempt to find Myles Robinson, 23, and police have taken DNA samples from his parents Sarah and Michael to help identification. The Swiss army has also been involved in the search which has included helicopters, sniffer dogs and infra-red cameras.

Robinson, 23, from south London, had been staying in the ski resort with his family but was last seen leaving a bar called the Blue Monkey to take a friend to her hotel just after 2am last Tuesday. He and his family have been visiting the town for 15 years and had been staying at another hotel nearby.

His mother said: "There's no news at all. We are just so confused that he has just vanished into thin air. We can't think of any reason why, we just don't know. It's all a bit of a nightmare.

"Christmas hasn't occurred in our lives this year. We just live one day at a time and we just do the best we can. Christmas Day was just another day of looking for him."

Source: The Guardian