>>2239969I love going off-trail in European forests, very rarely does it get challenging and I've never gotten lost before. I rarely 'turn back' either, I always loop around somewhere and go back to where I need to be. Much more exciting than sticking to a trail, and it's always a fun to have my dog with me.
I've went off-trail in an Australian bush before for a few hours, swam down the very slow-moving river with huge lizards in it and attempted to 'loop around' to the farm I was staying at, but since it was a different climate and different terrain, I saw fatigue coming soon so I called it immediate quits and literally did a 180 and went back the way I came. "Alright, I'm not fucking around here". If something happened to me out there, my body would never be found. My bones would still be scattered out there. By the time I got back to my dwelling, I was physically exhausted since I was going up & down hills, plus swimming. If I had stayed out for another hour or so, I would have been wrecked.
Another time I went off-trail in an actual jungle was in Thaland after I went to check out an underwhelming waterfall. I wanted to see more so I walked into the jungle for a mere 10 minutes and realised that this is simply far too dangerous to be wandering around in. I noped out of there and went straight back to my motorbike.
So to answer your question OP - no. Everyone here would probably die if they got lost in a jungle/rainforest. I couldn't even imagine having to the spend the night in one and try to get to safety for multiple days. The body fatigues so quickly that it's frightening. These two girls had no business being out there.
As much as the murder stuff is fun to speculate about, exposure, stress, insects and panic all got to them while not having enough food/water. They most definitely deteriorated at a staggeringly fast rate that they turned into food for whatever lives out there to eat.
