The rescuers are intensifying their investigations for the 68-year-old BBC presenter whose traces have been missing from Symi for four days.

His four children have rushed to Symi, while his wife emphasizes that the family’s hopes of finding him have not yet been lost.

The 68-year-old is believed to be based on the latest security camera footage of him walking with his umbrella next to his Marina Leg in the direction of Agia Marina and Noulia hillhas disappeared between three hilltops from this point towards Gialos of Symi.

This is the last recording of the missing person on a closed-circuit camera, as the Rhodes security authorities searched for similar video material at the entrance to Symi, i.e. towards Gialos, and no movement or presence of him has been recorded.

Officials of the Greek police are certain that the journalist has been lost in these approximately 2.5 kilometers which, however, had not been demarcated exactly for the previous three days.

This is a particularly “inhospitable” route for a walker who is not familiar with the area, as it has rough, difficult, but also dead-end and dangerous places with no real paths.

How difficult the route is to access can also be seen from the fact that even land-based rescue crews find it difficult to attempt, and for this reason the investigations are mainly based on the fire brigade’s helicopter but also on the footage recorded by the drones.

The same executives point out that the missing person did not have a large amount of water with him and that the area was experiencing difficult weather conditions with temperatures of 46 and 47 degrees Celsius.

In fact, he had already traveled the distance of about 20 minutes from Agios Nikolaos to Pedi and for these reasons they cannot rule out that he suffered some heat stroke which possibly caused other pathological causes such as loss of orientation or collapse.

In addition, they cannot rule out a fall, serious injury and loss of consciousness or even a snake or insect bite, which, as the residents point out, occur in these places.

It is worth mentioning, however, that the journalist himself had also marked the area in question on the map he usually used, considering that he might take this route to go to the well-known beach of Agia Marina and then return to Gialos.