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Lost In The Woods Podcast

70. Missing in the Pyrenees Mountains

Lost In The Woods Podcast

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True Crime

3.9582 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Esther Dingley went missing in November 2020 after going on a solo trek in the Pyrenees mountains. She had been living the "van life" for six years at the time of her disappearance  get in shape with Marie💪🏻 https://www.1stphorm.app/marieschedler https://1stphorm.com/?a_aid=marieschedler&a_bid=acc524e5&chan=Lostinthewoods our links: https://open.spotify.com/show/4yFbZbdtAtCeKAsDlnAkew?si=WecC4XCUQb2c0pjIXjSCpw https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-in-the-woods-podcast/id1504163212 https://www.instagram.com/lostinthewoodspodcast/ https://www.patreon.com/lostinthewoodspodcast https://my-store-11745950.creator-spring.com/ https://linktr.ee/Lostinthewoodspodcast buy us coffee☕️ https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2323643837186048330&created=1633816408.531276&printed=1 http://paypal.me/lostinthewoodspod Sources: Van life: Durham couple's six years on the road (and counting) - BBC News Esther Dingley: Missing hiker 'taken against will' - BBC News Esther Dingley: Missing hiker's partner 'in a world without sense' - BBC News Durham van traveller Esther Dingley missing in Pyrenees - BBC News Esther Dingley search: Six teams look for her in Pyrenees - BBC News Esther Dingley: Partner says police 'looking at non-accident options' - BBC News Esther Dingley: Missing hiker search 'off until weather improves' - BBC News Esther Dingley: Missing Briton was 'experienced hiker and loved life' - BBC News Esther Dingley: Partner vows to keep searching for missing hiker - BBC News Esther Dingley: Missing hiker's boyfriend resumes search alone - BBC News Esther Dingley: Police search for missing British hiker resumes - BBC News Esther Dingley: French and Spanish police carry out search - BBC News Esther Dingley: Partner informed of 'remains' find in Pyrenees - BBC News Esther Dingley: Remains confirmed as those of missing hiker - BBC News Esther Dingley: Missing hiker's boyfriend finds her body - BBC News Esther Dingley: Hiker's partner thanks 'hero' searchers - BBC News Esther Dingley: Hiker's Pyrenees death an accident, police say - BBC News Esther Dingley: Hiker's ashes to be spread in places she loved - BBC News No clues, no leads … now winter snows could cover last trace of missing hiker | France | The Guardian Boyfriend of missing hiker: Police haven’t given up the search | Evening Standard Boyfriend fears missing hiker Esther Dingley was attacked by hunters | News | The Times Missing hiker Esther Dingley's campervan 'spotted with someone sleeping inside' - NZ Herald Choosing adventure (ox.ac.uk) Missing hiker Esther Dingley could have fallen in snow, says refuge keeper | News | The Times Pyrenees Wildlife - The Adventure Creators Esther Dingley family call for clarity after claim human remains found in Pyrenees | UK news | The Guardian Esther Dingley: remains found in Pyrenees are missing Briton’s | UK news | The Guardian

Transcript

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:16.0

Hi, guys. I'm Marie.

0:17.5

And I'm Maddie.

0:18.3

And we are here recording Lost in the Woods.

0:21.0

Welcome back.

0:22.1

Hopefully everybody had an amazing weekend.

0:24.8

We had lots of rain here, lots of storms.

0:27.7

Yeah.

0:28.6

It's been a fun time.

0:29.6

But today we are going to England for our case.

0:35.0

Yes.

0:36.0

In January of 2014, Esther Dingley and her fiancé Dan Colgate, they were both in their early 30s.

0:45.4

They shared a good apartment in the picturesque cathedral city of Durham.

0:51.5

Now, Durham is about 260 miles north of London, but the city is actually closer to Scotland,

0:58.8

at only 123 miles to Edinburgh City. So yeah, just kind of nestled between London and Scotland.

1:07.2

They had met at Wardham College at Oxford University.

1:16.5

Dan graduated the degree in chemistry and Esther had graduated with a degree in economics and management.

1:22.3

After graduation, Esther wanted to travel straight away but Dan thought it was too reckless and wanted to pursue a PhD and start working.

1:26.6

So that's what they did. So Dan completed his PhD in

1:30.9

chemistry at Durham University and they both had good careers by this stage. Dan was a business

1:37.4

development manager and Esther owned her own personal training business. But it wasn't making them

1:43.6

happy.

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