Jay Slater's situation was described as "treacherous" and "virtually impossible" for him to escape from, according to an army veteran appearing on Good Morning Britain with hosts Kate Garraway and Richard Madeley.
Chris Pennington – who spent weeks searching for the missing teen – gave a chilling account on Tuesday's show, 16 July, after a body was discovered in Tenerife's Masca region.
He hauntingly noted that once Jay was in that area, it was essentially "game over".The Lancashire lad, 19, disappeared on 17 June following a festival in Tenerife and was last seen in the Rural de Teno national park.
After the body was found, following a search with dogs, it led to a complex recovery operation involving a helicopter from the emergency rescue service.
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