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SBM BBM Yes, this route makes total sense to me and explains why there was not only no phone contact, but also no signal from her phone after 4pm on 22nd. I cannot imagine that ED would not have turned on her phone at some point the next day if she had gone to Port de la Glere via the Spanish...

So ED might have planned to stay at the Cabane du Cirque de la Glère (blue hut icon) on the night of 23 Nov, after setting off from the Refuge de Venasque and following the anti-clockwise route on this picture. Taken from this website. At least that may have been the plan but she never made it...

Makes sense to me. How long would that loop take, do we think? It does not look to me like it can be done in a single day, so she would indeed have had to bivouac somewhere along this route. In subzero temperatures and with limited access to water. Is that do-able with a sleeping bag and a tent...

There appears to be a route from Benasque to Port de la Glère. It is described here. ED could have planned to do the loop anti-clockwise, ending at Port de la Glère and making her way back to Benasque from there. ETA: I've just noticed @jsoap's post mentioning that route had been blocked by...

@jsoap Can you remember how long the loop from Port de la Glère to Port de Venasque (the longer, 'looped' way) took you when you walked that trail in 2014?

I agree that the lack of a FB post on 21 Nov is very inconsistent and possibly relevant. She did post on Instagram that day, but she may have habitually posted on FB in the evening and on Instagram during the day (just thinking out loud here!). Add to this the strange selfie from the Pic de...

Plus, she was 'in the middle of a hike' according to the Daily Mail article, having set off from Plan d'Estan, where Mr Balarin dropped her off on Saturday. So she would have already spent the night somewhere on 21 Nov as part of this trip. It's unlikely she spent it at the Refuge dV as LE found...

There are further references that ED's route included the Port de Glère in this Daily Mail article: When she went missing, she was thought to have been in the middle of a hike of several days, taking a circular route from Port de la Glere to Port de Venasque via Pico Salvaguardia. Having set...

To me, this quote from the LBT press release implies that ED was intending to stay at the refuge on 22 Nov. "Esther specified her route from the summit we spoke on. She had two hours of daylight to reach a refuge winter room, a distance that would have taken her less than an hour."

I'm trying to figure out why you think ED planned to hike to the port de Glere on 22 Nov. From the LBT press release, it is clear that her plan was to stay at the refuge on 22 Nov. Do you mean she may have changed her plan without telling DC? He says he spoke to her "on/from a summit" - it's not...

I can follow this thought process. I think it is very easy to imagine that ED's desire for human contact, internet connection, water and food (perhaps she needed water to make food?) made her want to push on to try and reach the Hospice de France. She liked pushing herself and I also think she...

I think this screenshot from the video posted earlier shows that same path from a different angle. It doesn't look as steep as when viewed straight on. Still a worry though.

Perhaps they prioritised trying to find ED alive. They only had a limited time period before the weather got worse, so searching the lakes would have wasted valuable time and resources.

Looking at this picture, that route does appear treacherous to me.

Do we have confirmation that the lake at the spot where ED disappeared has been searched? On the short route between the Pic de Sauvegarde and the refuge there is a pool that looks big enough for a person to disappear in. I presume they searched it. Dan would have walked past it when he retraced...