And this was in Panama in case anyone is wondering.
I feel for the parents of these young women. It’s a parent’s worse nightmare, having a child go missing.
I guess I may be overprotective, but I would not be comfortable allowing my two daughters do something like that by themselves.
Like the two Dutch girls that decided it would be a great idea to hitch-hike across remote regions of Muslim Morocco.
Darwin award.
Gee, I dunno! Somebody got them. Sad.
I am not big on adventuring solo or with one other person, especially in other countries. Lots and lots of tour companies that will take you to these place. I have a running club acquaintance - fifty-something wife and mother. She has been solo trekking the Continental Divide trail and recently fell off a cliff - survived but had to have hip surgery. She has been happily sharing her recovery photos on IG. I wish her the best, but definitely NOT for me! I want lots of company!
Sinister pictures?.....that’s daily mail looking for clicks.
More telling is “the phones revealed that around six hours into their hike someone tried to ring the emergency services 77 times.”
Sounds to me like they ran across wild animals......either the four or two legged variety.
Jaguars and Crocodiles can be found in Panama....that would explain the scattered remains.
So emergency calls wont get processed without the user PIN
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Women on hikes in the woods are easy targets.
In the complex jungle terrain in Panama, it is not hard to become disoriented and lost.
The streams are cut deeply into the terrain. if you mistakenly move from one watershed to another, you can go a very long ways without getting to civilization.
I spent five years in Panama. I had maps, compass, and was careful, and did not get lost. However, I never went more than a couple of hours into the jungle on foot.
A compass does very little good because, essentially, you must follow the river systems, and they are tortuous.
It always astonishes me how ignorant people are - both in planning such trips and analysis of the missing - regarding the most dangerous animal in the forest/jungle/wild.
The remains part is crazy. What is with these women going to South America to hike?
What were the sinister photos?
“.....meanwhile, back in the States.....”
I didn’t read anything in the write up that said they had interviewed the two Dutch guys?
The first thing I noticed is that they are lousy photographers.
Is that on a Cartel route?
What is the sinister photo?