"It's dark, it's extremely dangerous," he commented. "Let me be frank, it's scary up here on your own in the darkness." Chris believes that after
Jay hurriedly left the holiday rental, he may have veered off down the ravine, thinking the coast was closer than it actually is.
He claims to have pinpointed the 'most sensible' places to search, including the precise geolocation of
Jay's last phone ping. Entering the bushes close to where he stumbled across the sunglasses, Chris explained how difficult it is to walk through the sharp shrubbery.
With his hands cut and scraped, he admitted that he could barely see two metres ahead of him. Dripping with sweat in the sweltering heat, he said: "You can only imagine that he's looked down at the coastline in the distance and thinks it's a lot closer than it really is. And that heading straight through the bush is the quickest route to safety."
However after coming off-road into the surrounding underbrush, Chris questions why the teen wouldn't change course and return to the path with safer walking conditions. "If Jay came off the path and went through there, like I've just done, he wouldn't leave the path again. You'd have to be mad."
Locals with expert knowledge are trying to retrace Jay Slater's movements in the Parque Rural de Teno, and they believe there's a key issue that may have prevented the search teams from locating the missing teen
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