Dr Michael Mosley might need ‘collapsed with the warmth’ throughout his stroll by means of ‘treacherous’ terrain on the island of Symi, the Greek mayor has claimed.
Mayor Eleftherios Papakalodouka mentioned searchers had been trying within the flawed place for the primary two days of the hunt to search out the lacking Mail columnist who was final seen on Wednesday afternoon.
Dr Mosley, 67, was on the secluded St Nicholas seashore when he set off to stroll to the city of Pedi from the place he was anticipated to catch a bus again to his villa within the port of Symi.
However the CCTV footage taken in Pedi at about 2pm reveals him heading for the mountains as an alternative.
Since then – and regardless of a large search operation involving canines, drones, helicopters and divers – there was no sighting of the author and broadcaster.
Mr Papakalodouka mentioned Dr Mosley had no water with him when he set off, telling the Solar on Sunday: ‘You can’t survive on this climate.’
CCTV seems to point out Dr Michael Mosley strolling in direction of rocky hills
Dr Michael Mosley together with his spouse Clare Bailey, who final noticed her husband on Wednesday
Dr Mosley was on the secluded St Nicholas seashore when he set off to stroll to the city of Pedi from the place he was anticipated to catch a bus again to his villa within the port of Symi
He added: ‘We’re virtually positive he walked into the hills […] with no shade. In the event you ask me I believe he collapsed with the warmth. It was simply an excessive amount of.’
Beforehand, the mayor had expressed concern that Dr Mosley could have been bitten by a snake.
Symi is residence to the Ottoman Viper, which is one among Europe’s most dangerous sorts of snake.
Rescue groups desperately trying to find Dr Mosley are actually focusing their search on a harmful cave advanced referred to as The Abyss.
Their efforts within the community of caverns and ‘limitless’ underwater tunnels on Friday discovered no hint of the TV medic, however his spouse Clare Bailey has vowed the household will ‘not lose hope’ of discovering him.
Greek police on Friday launched new CCTV footage of Dr Mosley taken on Wednesday afternoon, the day he vanished on the island of Symi.
He was carrying an umbrella to guard himself from the 35C (95F) warmth and strolling purposefully in direction of a mountain path.
That is the image of Dr Mosley posted with an attraction after he went lacking whereas strolling on vacation in Greece on Wednesday
A rescue helicopter joined the search yesterday, seen right here hovering over Pedi
Talking yesterday for the primary time since her husband’s mysterious disappearance, Dr Bailey spoke of the ‘longest and most insufferable days for myself and my youngsters’.
In an announcement yesterday Dr Bailey, 62, mentioned: ‘It has been three days since Michael left the seashore to go for a stroll. The longest and most insufferable days for myself and my youngsters.
‘The search is ongoing and our household are so extremely grateful to the individuals of Symi, the Greek authorities and the British Consulate who’re working tirelessly to assist discover Michael. We is not going to lose hope.’
Sources informed The Mail on Sunday Dr Bailey had been referred to as in once more to provide rescuers additional particulars about what her husband had with him when he disappeared.
An official mentioned: ‘It has been 4 days and no hint has been discovered of him so it was simply to go over issues once more.
‘She defined he was sporting a khaki backpack and had his pockets, bottle of water and a watch, which was not a sensible watch.’
On Friday, the couple’s 4 grown-up youngsters travelled to Symi to affix their mom.
Volunteers stroll mountain paths on Symi the place Michael Mosley could have gone after disappearing on Wednesday
They had been understood to be a part of the search celebration yesterday scouring the two-mile path from Pedi to Agia Marina, as small seashore close to The Abyss, the place rescue efforts will proceed immediately.
To enter these treacherous caves, Dr Mosley must have swum from the Agia Marina seashore – the identical means the coastguard and divers accessed them yesterday.
Rescuers have additionally been looking round a separate rocky path near Agia Marina, which rises throughout jagged limestone terrain and leads by an extended route again to Symi. However it’s not marked and guidebooks warn it’s a ‘technically troublesome’ path.
The Mail on Sunday walked a piece of this path this weekend and, though manageable, it will definitely be laborious work beneath a fierce solar.
One member of the search staff who we encountered mentioned: ‘We have now footage of him going this manner from the final home in Pedi.
‘This can be a troublesome stroll at the most effective of occasions and shouldn’t be completed between 11am and 5pm. We expect he was right here throughout the hottest a part of the day, at 2pm.’
Rescuers are involved for Dr Mosley’s welfare due to the harmful warmth and described the hunt as a ‘race towards time’ with each minute invaluable.
All boats have been requested to maintain a watch out for him within the water and in an indication of how urgently they had been treating the state of affairs, firefighters who had been tackling blazes on the close by island of Kos had been transferred to Symi after bringing the flames beneath management.
On the purpose-built Agia Marina, seashore, workers informed The Mail on Sunday police had requested to examine their CCTV.
One worker mentioned: ‘I am fairly sure I might have remembered a person with an umbrella however nobody got here this manner dressed like that.
‘It is a climb to the highest of the mountain, you then stroll down and it climbs once more earlier than you meet a highway taking you into the city. It might take about an hour, hour and a half most.
‘There’s nothing between right here and Symi aside from stones, extra stones and sheep and goats. It is all uncovered and I would not try to stroll it on this warmth.’
