The metadata tells a clinical story. The first 76 pictures were taken in frantic bursts between 1:00 AM and 4:00 AM. Image 580 was taken seven hours later, at 10:51 AM on April 9th.
For years, armchair detectives have debated the "night photos." Are they evidence of a lost pair of hikers trying to signal a helicopter? A failed attempt to use the flash as a torch to find a trail? Or are they the visual stutter of two young women in the final stages of panic, their reality shrinking to the cold stone under their backs and the sound of something moving in the leaves just beyond the flash's reach? kremers froon night photos
The night of April 8, 2014, was moonless and absolute over the cloud forests of Panama. Somewhere along the serrated spine of the Continental Divide, two young Dutch women—Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers—were already dead, or dying. We wouldn't know which for another two months, when a local farmer found their discarded backpack, bleached by sun and rain, floating in a rice paddy. The metadata tells a clinical story