Overview
- Jay Slater vanished on a holiday in Tenerife after missing a local bus and setting off on a long walk, later telling friends he was lost and thirsty before his phone died.
- Spanish police and mountain rescue teams spent four weeks searching the Parque Rural de Teno using helicopters, drones, volunteers and ground teams to comb dense vegetation and steep ravines.
- A body recovered in the Juan Lopez Ravine was identified by fingerprints after heavy deterioration and linked to Jay by recovered clothing and personal effects.
- Post-mortem and Spanish toxicology tests found cocaine, MDMA, ketamine and alcohol, findings that investigators and a former detective say likely impaired Jay’s judgment during the trek.
- Two years on, coverage and commentary stress the ravine’s near-vertical drops, the difficulty of rescue work there, and the wider safety lessons for inexperienced tourists in remote mountain terrain.