Well, If Esther had an accident then I m thinking she wasn’t far from Pic de Sauvegarde. She wasn’t found by the extensive searches though so let’s see what the searches reveal this year.
I think there is good reason to believe that her disappearance is not due to an accident due to the many inconsistencies, uncertainties and puzzling features peculiar to this case. Hope, if that turns out to be the case, that the Spanish authorities find the answers.
If we could fill in the blanks to the text conversations Esther had then I think we’d have more of an idea of what was going on for her. Will revisit SMM ‘s post as it is so useful
I agree that filling in the blanks would provide a lot of answers.
I took a look back at Dan’s explanation for his selection process in regard to public access to ED’s communications:
‘Selected messages received from Esther are quoted below to indicate the times she set out, the times she subsequently reached Pic de Sauvegarde on both days and her happiness at the time. The full transcripts and screenshots of all communication have been provided to the police in both France and Spain.”
Let me make it clear that I am not accusing Dan of anything nefarious at all ...other than presenting a romantic fairytale narrative to the public that is more protective... than proactive in solving the mystery.
The dossier does not even consider the possibility of suicide in outlining possible theories. The word isn’t even mentioned! But yet Dan feels a need to provide texts to her state of mind. But IMO ONLY the happy ones. Like many of those in mourning, he needs to believe in ED’s complete happiness.
Her departure from the house-sit is strange and abrupt...but any stresses on Esther that might be revealed in subsequent messages are seemingly not shared. On one hand that is their private business, but unfortunately, in a disappearance it is often that “private business” wherein the clues to the solution lie.
Her own posts in the weeks after they returned from the Summer hike...show a woman struggling and hurting.
Like many of us, ED is a complicated person with many emotional parts. But her emotional “survival skills” seem to require a distance from the world that IMO is beyond the norm. Her extensions to her trip, her days in the motor home in inclement weather...when Dan and “home”.were an option only hours away...the witness reports...the relationship description by the Investigator...the repetitive pictures...IMO paint a different picture of her last weeks than the “happy talk” that Dan chooses to provide to the public.
Likewise his insistence that she is equipped and conducting herself in the manner of the most experienced and safety conscious member of their sport...has been challenged here by those who best know that sport.
In summation, my issues are not with Dan, a man grieving for his missing partner...my issue is with the dossier. The more we look at it’s detail, the less helpful I find it to be. The more I pick at the information provided, the more confused I become. Last night a bit of a old song lyric came to me...
‘Memories may be beautiful and yet..
What’s too painful to remember, we simply choose to forget.’
I guess that’s my best summation of the Dossier.