The reason missing Jay Slater would have tried to tackle the difficult terrain in Tenerife has been speculated on by a local expert, who tells GB News the missing teen would have had "thoughts of a 19-year-old".
The teenager went missing last month after attending a music festival with a friend and yesterday a body of a "lifeless young man" was found in the area of his last known location.
Slater was last heard from when he called his friend to say that he was lost, his phone was on one per cent charge and he was attempting to walk home, a journey that would take 11 hours on foot.
The Civil Guard said in a statement that he may have died due to an accidental fall as the terrain in the area is difficult to walk on.
Spanish police said the body was found in an "inaccessible area" near to where Slater vanishedXSpeaking to GB News, travel writer and local expert Joe Cawley said: "In my opinion, this is a 19-year-old lad who has possibly been a three-day and three-night party.
"He is not going to have the most energy. He was dehydrated. He was lost. He was tired and possibly intoxicated.
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"Still, I think looking around, if you knew this area, everywhere you look is going to be steep. When you're looking upwards, I think it would be the path of least resistance for him to head downhill towards the ocean and then see where he was and see if he can get along the coast.
"It would have been impossible if he had gotten to the coast but I think it was just it was just the thoughts of a 19-year-old boy. Just go the easiest route, to be honest."
GB News host Tom Harwood said: "So in other words, he's thinking, 'I've just got to get down. I know my accommodation is down there somewhere.
"'If I just go off-road and head down towards the sea, I'm going to get there eventually'. And he has possibly lost his footing and has fallen down one of these ravines."
Joe Cawley outlined why he would have chosen that way
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Cawley responded: "That's what it looks like to to be honest. It looks like he has fallen down.
"In these ravines, you can suddenly chop your way through the undergrowth if you can push your way through, you would be scratched by cacti and all the bushes.
"But with some of this, you don't know what's beyond this bush. And you can immediately plunge up to 200 or 300m. It's that kind of terrain."
The apprentice bricklayer's phone was last traced to the Masca ravine in a remote, mountainous national park.
A member of the Guardia Civil near the last known location of Jay Slater, near to the village of Masca, TenerifePASlater - from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire - travelled to an Airbnb in the village of Masca with people he met at the NRG musical festival on Sunday, June 16.
A missing persons organisation has confirmed: "Although formal identification is yet to be carried out, the body was found with Mr Slater’s possessions and clothes.
"A post mortem and forensic enquiries will follow.
"LBT Global are supporting the family at this distressing time and ask for everyone to afford them space and privacy to come to terms with the news."
