

And then the moment arrives, the pivotal moment you begin to accept that you will die there in the middle of the jungle. Afterwards you will start your studies, your room, your study, everything is pre-arranged. When does the hope stop? You are so young, on this beautiful adventure, an exciting holiday. You can’t reach your parents, you’re waiting for help that will not come. “The story totally fascinated me, I was thinking, ‘How would you feel as a girl in that situation?’ Deep into the woods, it’s wet, you are hungry, lost. I was reading the coverage of the story of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers by The Daily Beast, in fact,” West told The Daily Beast. “It was 2016 and I was sitting on my veranda during a thunderstorm, in the pouring rain, at night. The Lost Girls of Panama: The Camera, the Jungle, and the Bones Now, Dutch authors Marja West and Jürgen Snoeren claim that in their new book Lost in The Jungle, the mystery is finally resolved. There is something about this tragic tale that haunts people to this day, and speculation about what really happened to the vanished girls never ended. The girls were lost, and would remain lost. It no longer seemed to matter how many people or organizations were drummed up, or how extensive the searches were. Their names were Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, and their sad story struck a chord with people around the globe.Īfter their disappearance, the good weather vanished as quickly as the girls had. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Photo HandoutĪMSTERDAM-On a sunny day, the first of April 2014, two 20-something girls went for a hike in the Panamanian jungle, and were never seen again.
