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What I have looked for through some of the earlier threads and news reports is what was the weather the 23rd November 2020 in the area near the Port de Glere, the day Esther was likely to be coming up it. I've seen posts saying in general that the weather was good but nothing specific apart from...

I still favour her coming up to the Port de Glere from France given Dan believed this from speaking to her and from her last text. I just wonder if she headed up the wrong way by mistake, looking at the wrong col. The path was likely part covered in snow approaching the Port de Glere according...

The rock looks so crumbly and fractured, I would be terrified.

Maybe trying to get a signal?

This was discussed a while back but it is a knife-edge ridge in parts and nobody has found or mentioned any such path, so it's been mostly discounted

Very good point, thanks. She would also have to recharge her 2 torches from this powerbank too. The torch lasts about 3 hours in standard mode, it also has a proximity mode but it is pretty dim. REVIEW: Petzl BINDI Headtorch "The white LEDs have three power modes: Proximity: 5 lumen, 6m...

Yes, we are unlikely to ever know. Does anyone check the soles of their excellent footwear though? I think most people assume they're good for as long as the tops last :-)

Could be but why mention a room at Refuge Venasque if she didn't intend going that way? I think her phone just wasn't on just to save what little power it had left after the 22nd November communications. Last charge was probably in the motorhome the night of the 20th; her next stop, the Cabane...

Could be but why mention a room at Refuge Venasque if she didn't intend going that way?

It's really rubbish - they go all the way there and then show almost nothing useful! I think the refuge they talk about is Venasque but the way they say it was a fateful wrong turn is also rubbish, as it is well documented that was her plan all along. Looks to me like they heaved the Sun...

Yes, I think she did this. Her message was a bit vague (probably because she knew she shouldn't go into France and didn't want hard evidence on her phone) but I bet she told Dan more precisely, hence he was so sure.

I still can't get my head round why Esther attempted to go up the Pic de la Glere. I've listed some reasons below but maybe I am missing things, or wrong. Was she climbing up the Pic from the French side, or did she fall from the top after entering Spain? Or even, was she in Spain the whole...

This is a google earth link so you can play around with the view angles of the site: http://www.grpdesbf.nl/esfr-mapdata-grpdesbf/Grpdesbf-331-333-variant-via-331-332-shortcut-via-lacdelamontagnette.kml It's the Esther Dingley area - with the pink trail being the shortcut from Refuge Vanesque...

This is a google earth link so you can play around with the view angles of the site: http://www.grpdesbf.nl/esfr-mapdata-grpdesbf/Grpdesbf-331-333-variant-via-331-332-shortcut-via-lacdelamontagnette.kml It's the Esther Dingley area - with the pink trail being the shortcut from Refuge Vanesque...

This is a google earth link so you can play around with the view angles of the site: http://www.grpdesbf.nl/esfr-mapdata-grpdesbf/Grpdesbf-331-333-variant-via-331-332-shortcut-via-lacdelamontagnette.kml It's the Esther Dingley area - with the pink trail being the shortcut from Refuge Vanesque...

Apologies for the source but a bit more detail which sounds reliable: She was wearing a pair of worn La Sportiva hiking shoes, but not a Kahtoola Microspikes traction system that she had with her. The spikes are marketed as the "gold standard" crampon-style add-ons for mountains "in frozen...

If I was confronted with this dilemma I would head to the left, round the easy side of the lake away from the mountain scree, to get to the same point, so it doesn't look a realistic possibility to me either.

It's an interesting theory but it just looks way too steep to me and there's no path. Looking at the route from the Spanish side I can't imagine that she would carry on hopping over those boulders and then zero path over very steep scree, dropping straight into the lake.

She could have been looking for shelter or trying to get away from something. Interesting video. Sadly she doesn't get much of a chance to talk! When she does she looks to him constantly, maybe in case he'll be annoyed with her interjecting. You could interpret this latest puzzler as both...

She could have been looking for shelter or trying to get away from something. Interesting video. Sadly she doesn't get much of a chance to talk! When she does she looks to him constantly, maybe in case he'll be annoyed with her interjecting.