Jay Slater went missing in the Rural de Teno area, near the village of Masca in the mountainous north-west of Tenerife, Spain.

Quick location overview

  • Jay had been on holiday in Tenerife and was last traced to the Teno Rural (Nature) Park , a remote, rugged, and hilly zone popular with hikers.
  • Phone data and posts from the night/morning of his disappearance place him around an Airbnb in the Masca area, then moving away on foot into the surrounding mountains.

Timeline in brief

  • He spent the night at clubs in Playa de las Américas in the south of Tenerife, then travelled with two men to an Airbnb in the north near Masca.
  • On the morning of 17 June 2024, he left the accommodation, phoned a friend saying he was “in the middle of the mountains”, had low battery and no water, and then his phone cut out; that location data pointed to Rural de Teno.

Search and later findings

  • The main search operation focused on steep ravines and tracks around Teno Nature Reserve , close to Masca, using helicopters, drones, dogs and mountain rescue teams.
  • About a month later, a body believed – and later confirmed – to be his was found in a remote ravine in the same general area, with a coroner later ruling his death an accidental fall from height in Tenerife.

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