The French national tourist missing in Madeira intended to walk for 12 days, totaling 220 kilometers. The information was confirmed to the JOURNAL by a friend, who presumes that Benoit Way may have chosen to follow an inadvisable path.
On Wednesday, the day of his last contact, the Frenchman completed the 4th stage of his route and friends and relatives found it strange that at the end of the day he had not published a summary of the route on Facebook, as he has habit did.
Benoit Way walks with equipment that allows him to camp, namely a tent, where he spends the night. The tourist shared with his friends that he would sleep in the Queimadas Forest Park, wake up at 7 a.m. on Wednesday and follow the trail to Caldeirão Verde. The plan was for a day off, Sunday, and the night before I had to sleep in local accommodation, booked through Airbnb, which didn’t happen.
The planning of this “adventure” through the mountains of Madeira has been carried out using the “All Trails” application, which, in addition to the recommended routes, benefits from the collaboration of hikers, who can share the coordinates of other trails. Friends of the French citizen believe they may have used these references to plan their route, which included passages through places of high altitude and slope.
Family and friends are asking Madeirans to work together to provide information that could help find Benoit Way. There is an indication, according to the paths previously shared by the Frenchman, that he may have passed through Caldeirão do Inferno, then using the branch to the parish of Ilha. Then head to Chão das Faias and Levada dos Tornos, towards Boca das Voltas.
These are the latest photos posted on Benoit Way’s Facebook page.
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