Travel Channel: Lost in the Wild seeks answers to missing persons cases
Lost in the Wild is a new series on the Travel Channel featuring veteran explorer, J.J. Kelley and journalist Kinga Philipps as they try to solve several baffling missing persons’ cases.
Lost in the Wild is the latest hot series to hit Travel Channel’s programming schedule hosted by veteran explorer, J.J.Kelley (who happens to be an Emmy nominated director and a National Geographic correspondent on EXPLORER) and journalist Kinga Philipps (Nat Geo’s America’s Lost Treasures and Travel Channel’s The Wild Side with Kinga Philipps). Each weekly episode features the pair attempting to reinvestigate puzzling missing persons’ cases.
Think of the duo as detectives whose assignments take them to exotic locales. Kelley and Philipps’ investigations pick up where the official reports end. According to the press release, one of their quests leads them to the Amazon jungle where they follow the path that some adventurers took to find a lost city before they vanished.
They also journey to Africa to climb a mountain where hikers have mysteriously disappeared. Wilderness experts as well as being intrepid journalists they are able to deal with potentially risky situations off the beaten track to do whatever they can to bring closure to these mysteries.
In the premiere, Kelley and Philipps trek into the Panamanian jungle to retrace the steps of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers, two Dutch women who went missing on a hiking trail. Along the way, in an attempt to understand what happened, they match the women’s photos and phone records.
They manage to cross the rather dangerous cable bridge that Froon and Kremers supposedly met their untimely demises on. After speaking with a couple who found Lisanne’s backpack in a neighboring village, Kelley and Philipps interview a forensic pathologist to determine the real cause of death and what he tells them casts doubt on the official report of how the women died.
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Tune into Lost in the Wild on Sunday, Dec. 29 on Travel Channel at 11:00 p.m.
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