Jay Slater's latest disappearance: Friend hears teen 'sliding on gravel' as 'massive' new search begins in Tenerife

The search for missing teenager Jay Slater will resume on Saturday in Tenerife after Spanish police appealed for volunteer experts to help.

The 19-year-old man, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, went missing after trying to walk home on June 17.

On Friday, the Civil Guard issued a call to volunteer associations, such as firefighters, and individual volunteers with expertise in rugged terrain to participate in a “busqueda masiva,” or massive search, which will take place on Saturday.

Situated in a steep valley in the beautiful Teno Rural Park, the remote village of Masca is a paradise for hikers and adventurers traveling to Tenerife.

But for Jay Slater's family and friends, it has become a nightmare location because its rugged landscape and steep ravines easily hide clues that could shed light on the teenager's disappearance.

Having seen the search first-hand, it is understandable that so little progress has been made in 12 days. The young Briton's phone was last traced near a stretch of road near the Mirador La Cruz de Hilda cafe, with dense cacti and shrubs on either side, slowing down the work of helicopters, drones and sniffer dogs to scour the area.

The Independents Holly Evans reports from Tenerife:

A “massive search” for missing British teenager Jay Slater is set to begin almost two weeks after he disappeared in a remote part of Tenerife.

The Civil Guard announced that it would intensify its search for the 19-year-old, after calling on volunteer associations, such as firefighters, and individual volunteers with experience in navigating difficult terrain to help them.

Police and volunteers will begin their search at 9am in the village of Masca, near Mr Slater's last known whereabouts, and will attempt to retrace his last known steps.

From the party vibes of the neon-lit strip of Playa De Las Americas to spiritual hikes through cactus-infested ravines in the heat, there's something for everyone.

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Jay Slater is reportedly the 11th person to disappear from the island of Tenerife this year.

The tourist area has the second highest number of missing people in Spain, with 11 people disappearing in 2024 alone, according to ABC News. Locals say people disappear on the islands every year and can be missing for “months.”

The region has many mountains, valleys, cliffs and very deep ravines.

Police fear the teenager may have become lost in remote mountains.

“It often happens that hikers disappear. It's the same thing every summer. The police spend a week looking for the victims, then leave. Sometimes it takes months to find a body because the mountains are too difficult to search,” said Anita, a local resident, identified only by her first name. The independent.

British teenager Jay Slater was attending the New Rave Generation music festival, a three-day event at the Papagayo nightclub on the Spanish island of Tenerife before he disappeared.

Lucy Law, the friend who was traveling with him, posted on a GoFundMe page that the teen left with two people he met at the festival to go to their apartment on the last day.

“Their apartment was miles from civilization and in a very isolated location,” Ms Law said.

On Monday morning, she said she received a call from Mr. Slater, informing her that he had missed the bus and was planning to walk back, a journey that would have been 11 hours of walking.

Along the way, Ms Law says the teenager was “lost in the mountains”.

“He was unaware of what was happening around him, he was desperate for a drink and his phone was 1% alcohol,” Ms Lucy said.

“His last location was on an off-road track, a 10-hour walk from his hotel,” she said.

The teenager reportedly did not have water with him for his hike, nor clothing suitable for the cold of the night or the heat of the morning.

“It was 1 degree and extremely windy when I looked out in the middle of the night,” Ms Lucy said.

The last recorded phone location of the teenager was in the mountainous Rural de Teno National Park at 8:50 a.m. on June 17.

The father of a young sailor who disappeared in Ibiza more than four years ago says Jay Slater's parents will “start to fear the worst” in their desperate search for their son.

Mark Garland rushed to catch a flight to the Spanish island with his two daughters and other son after receiving a call that his son, Ben, had gone missing while filming waves near Portinatx.

The family, joined by several of Ben's friends, spent two weeks with police in a major search operation centred on the rocky point of the coast where the 24-year-old left his motorbike on January 21, 2020.

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Amazon has been called out by the charity Missing People for profiting from the media hype surrounding the disappearance of teenager Jay Slater and peddling books containing conspiracy theories about his disappearance.

The teenager has not been heard from since the morning of June 17, and local police are still organizing a search in the rugged terrain where he was last found. However, even as the search continues for the boy, some vendors have published books spreading conspiracy theories about the missing teenager. The mirror first report.

Some of these books, according to the report, were even written using artificial intelligence. The publication of such AI-authored books, which take advantage of growing trends, has increased in recent years.

After receiving criticism, Amazon confirmed that one of these books was no longer available for sale on the e-commerce platform.