"I was horrified," said Dhooma, as she recounted the 2019 incident. There were no other people nearby; she watched terrified as he began moving towards her. I felt very, very unsafe at that moment."
Dhooma fled and the man chased her. When she spotted a home with smoke curling out of its chimney, she pushed through the doors, screaming for help. The man continued behind her.
Later it emerged that the man had a knife and bullets in his backpack, and a previous conviction for rape. 'If I hadn't found that house, I don't know what would have happened,' Dhooma said.
Dhooma was one of nine women who spoke to the Guardian about incidents of sexual harassment they had experienced while walking the Camino de Santiago in the past five years.
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