Totally absorbing film, but what a shame!
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Agreed.
Frankly, good luck to the young Alex Batty. He seems to have courage and determination that will send him far.
I am far more concerned about the petit Ćmile who disappeared this summer in Haut-Vernet, aged only two. The grandparents hime was forensically examined another time in November. Police were looking for blood traces but presumably found none.
I search online periodically to see if there is any news but I am afraid that it is no longer such a high profile story.
Concern has stayed with me, especially since I heard the Irish father of a four year old girl abducted to Gaza on October 7 saying that he would rather she be dead than suffering horrors. I hope little Ćmile is alive and safe.
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In the US, absolutely, but Iām not sure thereās any real wild in Britain where every scrap of land is owned and monitored to a greater or lesser degree.
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Richard Hannay struggled, even in the wilds of Scotland.
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Non- story for me. Revel is down the road but none of the locals Iām in contact with shown any interest in the story.
Yes, that is a real heartbreaker as my grandson is only a few months older and it really upset me. I personally think he was kidnapped and hope he will be found alive soon.
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Iāve been offline nearly a weekā¦ . until nowā¦ so a little late to this thread.
Personally, I was overjoyed that the Grandmother would finally be reunited with her grandsonā¦ what hell she must have been going through these past yearsā¦ ghastly.
and, yes, I too am closely watching for news of little Emileā¦
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But really, is no one bothered about the death of young Thomas is IsĆØre?
This may be the first Iāve heard.
Agreed, but the book on which itās based is better in my opinion because the author was writing from his personal experience about something very similar, and how heād survived by abandoning his lifelong dream. Also an interesting book if one likes/liked extreme rock climbing challenges.
Yes very much so, it is the sort of thing we are always on the qui-vive about. Ghastly.
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Are you thinking of the same thing? The film I think both Sue and I are referring to is about Chris McCandless. Are you referring to Jon Krakauer?
Both. Saw the film and read the book a long time ago, but Iāve also written a few things on aesthetic aspects of wilderness, so it was a research interest.*
Itās also a salutary lesson, McCandlessās death was due to relying on limited knowledge heād gained from a public library book, rather than knowing from phenomenological observation of the different appearances of a plant at different stages in its growing cycle. Not that uncommon, which is why I donāt go mushrooming - thereās been some horrible deaths through that sort of error.
Donāt like citing Wikip, but sometimes itās simply convenient:-
Yes, it was appalling. Itās been big news on the French news progs.
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Donāt actually need to since both Sue and I are obviously familiar with subject matter!
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Yes, but only did it because your post was phrased in such a way that it came across as though you were questioning my link to the Kaukonen bookā¦
Idiot.
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āThar be dangers in that book larnināā
Returning to Alex Batty, itās interesting (at least to me) that despite several years as an isolated teenager in a cult, he (like my nephew) had a set of values and aspirations that heād retained, My nephew was cut off from the outside world from being a couple of years older, but I have photo from 2006 of him with his skateboard (didnāt have those in the OT!) so possibly his already established early teen rebel values and personna enabled him to survive subsequent years of indoctrination.
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