Yet, I keep reading that he was last witnessed about 2 hours from the trailhead at Aegiali by a woman who sold him a soda drink and water. Her location was not specified, but 2 hours into the hike would be at the inflection point of the trail where the NW corner merges with the SE side, at the region of the village of Asphondilitus which is described in other sources as abandoned. There is a road up from the west side that goes up to Asphondilitis and it meets up with the trail near what is marked on maps as the Steki cafe/restaurant and the Agios Nicholaos church.
It's been stated that his intent was to meet someone in Katapola after his hike, so we would presume he had no reason to explore, or deviate from the path he knew, and he knew it well enough to predict his arrival time. Perhaps he actually turned around and went back NW on the trail he had just done, perhaps to retrieve something he dropped, like a phone. or just from disorientation. I think the possibility is still out there that he might have gotten into someone's vehicle at Asphondilitus and then an untoward attack occurred, or he actually died of heatstroke and his body was hidden by someone not wanting to be implicated in the death of a foreigner.
Sadly, I think all cards are still on the table at this point.
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