Thread 2 - Michael Mosley missing after disappearing on holiday walk

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Following on from thread 1, linked below.

Let's hope the CCTV / sighting in town gives a glimmer of home that he made the walk from the beach to town ok.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5090880-michael-moseley-missing-after-disappearing-on-holiday-walk?page=10&reply=135846185

You sound nice

You would really have to try very hard to make a situation like this worse for the poor family, but you’ve certainly given it your all with this comment.

The BBC is now saying that the reported new CCTV showing him entering the mountain track has been seen by PA news agency (previously it had not been provided to the media). If PA have verified it then this is really important.

@LionBarPlease yy especially the extra touch of virtual signalling about I sincerely hope this lovely man will be found safe yeah weasly words easily said from someone who doesn't even know MM so how they can be sincere about it is anyone's guess.

So it looks like he set off with a plan to walk to pedi and get bus to symi. Couldn’t get bus for whatever reason (eye witness saw him try to). So felt he had no option other than to try walking. Not knowing the area or perhaps someone have incorrect advice he has taken a path he thought would be more direct than the road but was actually very difficult terrain through mountains.

Why is your tone so nasty and rude?

This is what I think the most logical explanation. He must be in those hills-he is apparently nowhere else!!

i read they saw him at the bus but cannot confirm he took the bus.
but now assume he took a difficult path from Pedi.
poor family

I am shocked reading this thread and I hope that it soon gets taken down. There are some seriously unwell, obsessive posters.

Haven't they had helicopters out daily though? Surely they'd have gone over that route numerous times.

from bbc
Separate CCTV, from a house at the edge of Pedi’s marina at the far end of the village, shows Dr Mosley later entering a mountain path at about 14:00 local time, PA said.

I think nobody thought to check that route initially. The search effort concentrated on the path from beach to pedi initially. From what I have read this route through the mountains is barely a proper path.

yes, that is what i understand

I think it is easily done taking the wrong path. I could see myself doing that. So he arrives in pedi. Can’t get the bus. So his options are. Wait in pedi? Walk back to beach? Walk the route to the house. None are probably very appealing. No phone to discuss with his friends. He thinks sod it, the island is tiny it can’t take long to just take this quick path here which looks like it goes in the right direction

Surely the umbrella is very identifying? It isn’t usual to see a man with an umbrella in the heat. Especially on such a small island?

I don't understand this at all. Even the mountain route looks pretty short (over a very small area)on Google maps so I fail to see how rescue team would fail to spot someone fairly quickly with helicopters and rescue dogs. It also looks pretty exposed with no cover unless there was a large rock he found shelter under.

Yes that's what I was thinking, the helicopters would've flown over that area and his clothes were pretty distinctive so would show up against the rocks.

but they werent searching that particular area before

Hopefully found soon, have been thinking of Dr Mosley. Not going to speculate in any way but hope for a good outcome for his family today.

Just have to hope, with a focussed search area now - that he is found today and his backpack contained enough snacks/water to have got him through the last couple of days. Just a horrible situation.

@Thegreatgiginthesky @itsabitdamp I don’t think this area has been fully searched as yet. New data came to light via CCTV on a house at edge of marina/village (?) only very recently.

It does seem likely now he took a wrong turn thinking it was a short cut. However you would hope - since it’s such a small island, that the rescue team would not have been stopping the search at Pedi for the last few days and these mountain routes would have been searched.

Feels like lots more resources are needed and quickly. It’s not the fall
in the sea scenario I though. I think he got ill/lost and is somewhere along that path. Though with that bright umbrella I don’t know how they haven’t found him yet.

Other making you sound like a smug superior what are you thinking your comment is adding to the discussion?

If a bad thing ever happens to you or your family let us know so we can come and delight in your misery

Is your username indicative of why you’d write something like this. Firstly him saying he felt unwell is simply speculation, you’ve no idea, it is not confirmed, and secondly, attacking a family who are going through this is as low as it gets.

I thought he mentioned to someone in pedi he felt unwell? It may not have been to his family