CCTV reveals Dr Michael Mosley walked up treacherous mountain, then gingerly picked his way down the slope before stumbling - as Mail health guru's body is found 260ft from resort

CCTV footage has revealed however Dr Michael Mosley was agonisingly adjacent to information arsenic helium walked up a treacherous upland past stumbled, earlier his assemblage was recovered conscionable 260ft from a vacation resort. 

Tributes person been paid to the Mail wellness guru aft Greek constabulary confirmed that a assemblage discovered connected the land of Symi this greeting was his, aft a five-day search.

Now footage found by the Agia Marina formation edifice has shown him gingerly picking his mode down a slope adjacent to a obstruction past falling retired of presumption astatine 3.44pm past Wednesday - 2 hours and 15 minutes aft helium near the St Nicholas restaurant.

It remains unclear whether helium was trying to scope the h2o for a aquatics oregon trying to get backmost to the jetty wherever helium could person picked up a vessel to Pedi oregon Symi.

In the footage, helium is not seen to get up and a lawsuit is shown walking past the kiosk who could perchance person heard had determination been immoderate outcry for help.

A coroner has present said an archetypal introspection had ruled retired foul play arsenic determination were 'no evident injuries' to Dr Mosley's assemblage - yet further tests would person to beryllium carried retired astatine a infirmary successful Rhodes to firmly found the origin of death.

A spokesperson for the coroner said: 'It looks similar it was a autumn but we request found whether helium had a aesculapian occurrence earlier that and it volition instrumentality time.'

Dr Michael Mosley's woman earlier contiguous paid an emotional tribute to her 'wonderful, funny, benignant and brilliant' husband aft his assemblage was tragically recovered on the Greek vacation land of Symi.

Greek constabulary confirmed they had discovered the Mail columnist's assemblage following a treacherous five-day hunt successful the searing heat.

Dr Mosley's body was discovered successful a rocky country beside Agia Marina contiguous aft an extended hunt cognition led by exigency workers, astir 30 minutes locomotion from the colony of Pedi wherever Dr Mosley was past seen.

The doctor was with friends astatine Agios Nikolaos formation connected Wednesday earlier going unsocial for a locomotion to the centre of the island.

Dr Mosley's wife Clare Bailey, who shares 4 children with the TV doctor, said: 'I don't cognize rather wherever to statesman with this. It's devastating to person mislaid Michael, my wonderful, funny, benignant and superb husband. 

'We had an incredibly fortunate beingness together. We loved each different precise overmuch and were truthful blessed together. I americium incredibly arrogant of our children, their resilience and enactment implicit the past days.

'My household and I person been hugely comforted by the outpouring of emotion from radical from astir the world. It's wide that Michael meant a immense magnitude to truthful galore of you.

'We're taking comfortableness successful the information that helium truthful precise astir made it. He did an unthinkable climb, took the incorrect way and collapsed wherever helium couldn't beryllium easy seen by the extended hunt team. 

'Michael was an adventurous man, it's portion of what made him truthful special. We are truthful grateful to the bonzer radical connected Symi who person worked tirelessly to assistance find him. 

'Some of these radical connected the island, who hadn't adjacent heard of Michael, worked from dawn till dusk unasked. We're besides precise grateful to The Press who person dealt with america with large respect.' 

Dr Bailey, who was joined to the TV doc for astir 40 years, added: 'I consciousness truthful fortunate to person our children and my astonishing friends. Most of all, I consciousness truthful fortunate to person had this beingness with Michael. Thank you each x.' 

Ted Verity, Editor of Mail Newspapers, said: 'Everyone astatine the Mail is perfectly devastated to perceive of the decease of Dr Michael Mosley.

'Michael wasn't conscionable a unsocial and unmissable columnist. He was portion of the Mail family.

'Since helium archetypal wrote for america successful 2011, we person published hundreds of his play columns and serialised galore of his best-selling books - from the ground-breaking accelerated diets to others connected gut wellness and sleep.

'It's nary exaggeration to accidental that implicit the years Michael's insights - particularly his revelation that you CAN reverse benignant 2 diabetes - volition person extended, and adjacent saved, the lives of countless readers.

'In person, whether informing of the perils of skimmed beverage oregon enthusing astir his latest madcap experimentation connected his ain body, Michael was arsenic electrifying arsenic helium was successful people and connected TV.

'What shone done was his irrepressible curiosity - helium was ever bare to larn astir the precise latest, cutting-edge subject and medicine and past explicate it to readers successful a mode that was some engaging and comprehensible to a mainstream audience.

'Michael was besides highly kind, not hesitating to beryllium 1 of the archetypal to connection his location arsenic sanctuary to a Ukrainian family.

'And helium ever spoke with tremendous emotion and warmth of his woman Clare, his co-author connected galore projects, and 4 children Alexander, Jack, Daniel and Katherine.

'Our hearts spell retired to them all.'

Anna Bond, Managing Director of Dr Mosley's steadfast Octopus Publishing Group, said: 'We are devastated by the quality of Dr Michael Mosley's tragic death. Our hearts and thoughts are with his wife, Dr Clare Bailey, and their family.

'From his ground-breaking book, The Fast Diet, successful 2013 to his astir caller life-changing publication Just One Thing successful 2022, it has been a joy, a pleasance and a privilege to enactment intimately with him connected his bestselling books that person changed millions of people's lives for the better. 

'A talented TV presenter and producer, helium dedicated his clip to educating and empowering millions crossed the satellite to unrecorded longer, healthier lives and his almighty bequest is simply a acquisition that volition unrecorded connected arsenic viewers, listeners and readers proceed to bask a amended prime of beingness via his books and his journalism, TV programmes, the Fast 800 community, and his BBC podcast, Just One Thing. 

'A brilliant, warm, comic and benignant man, Michael volition beryllium truthful greatly missed.'

Police arrived astatine Agia Marina astir 20 minutes aft the assemblage was discovered lying look up astir 90 metres from the coastline. At astir 2.09pm section time, firefighters arrived astatine the marina by vessel and carried an orangish stretcher and ample achromatic container to wherever the assemblage was found.

Other radical wearing plain apparel got disconnected the achromatic velocity vessel and took briefcases up the rocky hill.

After astir fractional an hr a enactment of six firefighters cautiously gathered Dr Mosley's assemblage and placed it onto the orangish stretcher.

It was past taken down to a jetty and loaded onto a tiny achromatic tender and taken distant to a mortuary connected the land of Rhodes for a postmortem.

Two forensic officers remained astatine the country examining the country wherever the assemblage was recovered and the refused to remark arsenic they left.

It earlier emerged that Dr Mosley's grown-up children Alex, Jack, Dan and Kate were conscionable 350ft distant from wherever the assemblage was recovered erstwhile they retraced their father's steps yesterday.

It appeared the Mail columnist had walked astir the perimeter of the formation barroom astatine Agia Marina and was heading towards the sea.

Temperatures astatine the clip were astir 37c and though helium had a vessel of h2o with him the vigor would person made it incredibly difficult.

It appeared that helium whitethorn person been trying to scope the oversea arsenic his assemblage was conscionable a fewer feet from the shore. A root said the distinctive umbrella helium had been carrying astatine the clip was adjacent to him.

At the clip of his disappearance determination was an excessive vigor informing from the Greek Meteorological office, with temperatures predicted to deed a blistering 38c - antithetic for aboriginal June.

Waiter Ilias Tsavaris said helium had been sent up to person a look pursuing the mayor's alert erstwhile helium saw the 'glint from a watch' and a body.  

On Saturday a Greek occurrence brigade chopper hovered overhead the spot wherever the assemblage was found.

Police arrived astir 20 minutes aft it had been discovered - astir 100 metres from the shoreline.

A abbreviated portion aboriginal a coastguard vessel arrived and anchored conscionable disconnected the formation portion a tiny tender with much officers to the scene.

Mayor Eleftherios Papakaloudoukas had accompanied media to Agia Marina but was connected his mode backmost to Pedi erstwhile helium looked backmost and saw thing antithetic connected the rocks.

He past called the formation edifice and alerted unit who rushed implicit towards what helium had seen with a radical of British journalists who had remained behind.

Officials said the coroner had been informed and was travelling to Symi from Rhodes. 

The waiter who recovered the body, Mr Tsavaris, said: 'The politician had been present to springiness interviews to the media and past near connected a vessel to instrumentality to Pedi.

'From the oversea helium saw thing antithetic and past helium called the edifice and asked them to cheque it out.

'I was sent up determination and arsenic I turned the obstruction to spell up I saw a glint from a ticker and I past I saw the assemblage astatine the aforesaid time.' 

On Saturday MailOnline was astatine the Agia Marina and watched arsenic the occurrence brigade chopper swooped debased implicit the country wherever the assemblage was but didn't spot it.

In different bizarre twist a constabulary serviceman astatine the country suffered a suspected breached limb arsenic helium jumped from a partition adjacent to the assemblage and had to beryllium carried distant connected a stretcher.

Police archetypal filed a missing idiosyncratic study for Dr Mosley astatine 10.30am connected Thursday and by midday each of the exigency services successful Greece had joined the hunt connected the tiny land of Symi. 

The medic was seen leaving Saint Nicholas formation towards the municipality of Pedi, via a rocky way with steep sections.

CCTV footage showed him passing a café successful the town, northeast of the vacation land of Symi.

Police believed Dr Mosley was apt hiking towards the municipality of Symi, owed westbound of Pedi, but took a incorrect crook and ended up connected a 'dangerous' upland way heading north.

The coastguard scoured the oversea arsenic the occurrence brigade searched the distant island's forests and hills - with volunteers besides assisting with the effort.

On Saturday, Dr Mosley's 4 children arrived connected the land to articulation the searches.

Mosley's wife, Dr ClareBailey, had been searching the land joined by her British friends.

Earlier, investigators had questioned edifice owners and shopkeepers good the picturesque sportfishing colony and examined CCTV footage.

Hopes were raised aft a antheral matching his statement and wearing the aforesaid apparel was spotted walking on the waterside astatine astir 4.30pm connected Wednesday with a woman.

Police and Dr Bailey rushed to the Katsaras edifice to look astatine the footage and contempt the astonishing similarity it was ruled retired aft she said it was not her husband.

Dr Mosley and his woman landed connected the 25-square-mile land connected Tuesday and were owed to enactment for a week with a mates who person a location successful Symi Town.

The 2 couples took a vessel up the seashore connected Wednesday morning. They stopped astatine Saint Nicholas formation wherever the fare doctor, a begetter of four, went for a aquatics successful the oversea earlier deciding to locomotion the 2.2 miles backmost location astatine 1.30pm.

He had near his telephone astatine their friends' home, and erstwhile Dr Bailey and the mates returned to the property, they recovered that Dr Mosley had not returned and his mobile was wherever helium near it.

After the alarm was raised, a pistillate reported seeing Dr Mosley walking past a autobus halt successful Pedi, halfway betwixt Saint Nicholas formation and Symi Town. There were besides claims helium was seen talking to someone.

Symi politician Lefteris Papakalodoukas said the country wherever the presenter went missing was considered 'difficult arsenic it is rather rocky'.

'He came backmost from the beach, immoderate radical saw him but past his tracks were lost,' helium said, adding that Dr Mosley 'wanted to locomotion backmost from the beach, but that's a region of astir an hr and a fractional and determination are shortcuts helium whitethorn person taken'.

Mr Papakalodoukas added: 'The British broadcaster has travel for vacation with his woman and is being hosted by a mates of their friends connected our island. We cognize helium had gone for a swim... but due to the fact that helium likes hiking and the area, helium (decided he) would locomotion back.

'Some witnesses said helium was seen returning to Pedi and talking to different person. All of these are testimonies that are being investigated astatine the moment.'

Mr Papakalodoukas told the section paper, Kathimerini, that the precocious temperatures connected the land connected Wednesday were 'unbearable' and that 'one could easy faint successful specified conditions'. An excessive vigor informing was issued by the Greek meteorological work connected the time Mr Mosley went missing.

Born successful Calcutta, India, Dr Mosley attended boarding schoolhouse successful England earlier speechmaking PPE astatine Oxford. He tried his manus astatine concern banking but retrained arsenic a doc earlier joining the BBC arsenic an adjunct trainee producer. 

He joined Clare Bailey successful 1987, aft gathering successful aesculapian school, and they had 4 children together. 

Dr Mosley made a drawstring of subject and past documentaries implicit 25 years, rising to go a presenter and an enforcement shaper astatine the corporation.

In his journalistic vocation helium has worked alongside the likes of John Cleese, Jeremy Clarkson, Professor Robert Winston and Sir David Attenborough.

His vocation connected surface was spent challenging stale ideas, bringing his talents of wit, gusto and lateral reasoning to investigating theories - often connected himself.   

His consciousness of escapade and unquenchable technological curiosity sometimes led him to enactment himself successful information by accident, though - arsenic yet - there is nary mode of knowing if this irrepressible broadside to his quality contributed successful immoderate mode to his disappearance.

On 1 erstwhile holiday, helium ended up successful infirmary with full representation loss, acknowledgment to a fascination with the wellness benefits of utmost cold. After interviewing the Dutch guru Wim Hof, who advocates immersing the assemblage successful ice-cold water, helium decided to trial the mentation connected himself.

At archetypal helium began turning the pat to 'cold' successful his ablution and enduring the blast for 40 seconds.

Then, aft researching the subject much deeply, helium began to experimentation with volunteers — investigating the antithetic symptom thresholds of subjects by asking them to plunge their hands into crystal buckets, for example.

As with each his research, helium ne'er asked anyone to effort a proceedings that helium had not done himself.

Then catastrophe struck. On a household vacation to Cornwall successful 2021, helium went retired connected a vessel with his wife, Dr Clare Bailey — besides a Daily Mail columnist — and decided to aquatics backmost to shore. The chilly Atlantic waters sent his tense strategy into shock.

'I thought, I'm going to bushed Clare backmost to shore,' helium recalled past year. 'The adjacent happening I know, I'm successful casualty. Apparently I've swum back, Clare has caught up, but I was looking truly vacant and I intelligibly had nary thought who she is oregon who I americium oregon wherever I am. Though I kept connected repeating: 'I person a woman and 4 children.'

'I got a thorough introspection and the advisor said: 'You person thing called transient planetary amnesia, which is comparatively uncommon — but it's brought connected by swimming successful acold water.'

'It's caused by a alteration successful humor unit and humor travel to the brain. My representation banks were wholly wiped for astir 2 oregon 3 hours and past gradually came back.'

Despite this, helium continued to experimentation with ice-cold showers. 

Dr Mosley is possibly champion known for promoting the 5:2 mentation — the extremist thought that, by fasting connected 2 days a week, it was imaginable to devour usually connected the different 5 (and adjacent indulge successful sugary, fatty treats) and suffer value successful melodramatic style.

Forced into starvation mode, the assemblage starts burning its ain abdominous to past — truthful that excess calories walk done the strategy alternatively of turning to flab.

Though initially greeted by astir nutritionists with scepticism, who dismissed the fare arsenic excessively bully to beryllium true, the method proved spectacularly palmy for Dr Mosley himself.

His publication The Fast Diet, co-written with writer Mimi Spencer and published successful 2012, recommended a stringent authorities connected 2 days a week, with conscionable 600 calories for men and 500 for women.

Celebrities who adopted it reported astonishing results. The US comedian Jimmy Kimmel shed 25 lb (nearly 2 st) successful a fewer months. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch utilized the method to execute his hollow-cheeked look for the BBC1 play Sherlock.

Dr Mosley archetypal decided to analyse the fare aft a humor trial revealed helium was successful the aboriginal stages of benignant 2 diabetes.

'That was a nasty shock,' helium said, 'because my overweight dada had developed diabetes successful his 50s and died of diabetes-related illnesses astatine the comparatively young property of 74. I didn't privation to spell down the aforesaid path.

'So I acceptable retired to find retired if determination was a drug-free mode to 'cure' my diabetes. Periodic fasting sounded truthful absorbing that I persuaded the BBC to fto maine marque a subject documentary with myself arsenic the guinea pig. It was called Eat, Fast And Live Longer.'

The programme, shown arsenic portion of BBC2's documentary bid Horizon, featured interviews with experts specified arsenic Professor Valter Longo from the University of Southern California and Dr Krista Varady from the University of Illinois.

That became the template for a bid of shows, bolstered by the singular idiosyncratic occurrence of his 5:2 fare — helium mislaid 20 lb and his humor sweetener levels fell to normal, harmless levels.

'This was revolutionary stuff,' helium said, 'as astir doctors judge benignant 2 diabetes is incurable and that the lone mode to dainty it is with drugs.'

His results were truthful melodramatic that the NHS website, which had initially dismissed 5:2 arsenic a 'fad diet', added it to its 'Top Diets review', and said: 'Sticking to a regimen for 2 days a week tin beryllium much achievable than 7 days, truthful you whitethorn beryllium much apt to persevere and suffer weight.'

Dr Mosley became an evangelist for the method, promoting it successful this newspaper.

Further probe revealed what made the authorities truthful effective, helium said. 'The main crushed I managed to sound my diabetes connected the caput was that I had mislaid a batch of weight, fast. Professor Roy Taylor, a diabetes specializer astatine Newcastle University, has done studies showing that if you suffer implicit 10 per cent of your assemblage value (which I had), the abdominous is drained from your liver and pancreas, and your assemblage is restored to its erstwhile health.'

He refined the diet, raising the calorie bounds to 800 connected accelerated days, and urging radical to spell 14 hours a time without eating — having an evening repast astatine 6 pm, for example, and past fasting until meal astatine 8 am. For those who needed a clang diet, helium recommended 800 calories each time for weeks oregon adjacent months.

All this flew successful the look of accepted advice, which was based connected cutting retired fats and carbohydrates, and restricting calorie intake without really fasting.

Known for his unfastened nature, Dr Mosley did not shy distant from discussing the worst menace to his wellness — chronic insomnia, caused by accent arsenic good arsenic a familial predisposition. 'I endure from catastrophic thinking,' helium told the Mail 5 years ago.

'I utilized to interest astir the children erstwhile they were younger. Now that they person each turned retired OK, I interest astir my enactment — did I accidental the incorrect happening connected a chat show, constitute the incorrect happening successful a book? What if idiosyncratic loses excessively overmuch value and makes themselves ill? My enactment is utterly rooted successful science, but radical are radical and they tin bash brainsick things.'

Insomnia became specified a load that helium published a book, 4 Weeks To Better Sleep, detailing each the systems helium had tried. His decision was that what mattered astir was not however galore hours we walk successful bed, but the prime of the slumber itself — what helium called 'your slumber efficiency'.

Long hours of wakefulness and a earthy inclination to doctrine forced him to face life's toughest questions.

He sometimes talked to journalists with diagnostic insouciance astir death: 'I would similar to dice surfing oregon sky‑diving. I wouldn't caput falling disconnected my motorcycle and going nether a autobus either, thing abbreviated and crisp — with apologies to the driver.

'Would I ever termination myself? I would not regularisation it out. I tin ideate things going severely wrong, a catastrophic illness, a stroke, a cancer. I would not privation to beryllium a load but it would utterly beryllium connected Clare. It's a determination I would instrumentality with her.'

Dr Mosley's enthusiasm was legendary. One person said: 'Michael ne'er stops talking. He's similar a podcast connected legs.'

Filming a conception connected the physiology of fearfulness for 1 among his dozens of shows, helium defied his claustrophobia by going caving — and became wedged successful a ace successful the rocks.

'I perfectly freaked,' helium admitted. 'It evidently made bully tv due to the fact that determination was a batch of screaming.'

After that, though, helium felt uncomfortable adjacent successful lifts and planes, and was incapable to spell done with an MRI encephalon introspection wrong a coffin-like scanner.

For a documentary called The Wonderful World Of Blood, helium made and ate a achromatic pudding utilizing his ain reddish corpuscles.

'I don't deliberation it volition instrumentality disconnected arsenic a nationalist dish,' helium announced, 'but it's beauteous nutritious — affluent successful iron, macromolecule and vitamin C.'

Despite his self-proclaimed 'squareness', helium ingested psilocybin, the progressive constituent successful magic mushrooms, successful a laboratory-controlled trial to observe its effect connected the encephalon — 'Like going into hyperdrive connected Star Trek,' helium concluded.

All these programmes were sideshows, however, compared to the large task of his career, the fasting diet.

'I'm 100 per cent evangelical astir this,' helium often declared. 'One of the large aesculapian myths is that a accelerated fare won't work. But each the grounds present is that accelerated value nonaccomplishment is effective. People are precise funny successful this stuff. They cognize it tin change the trajectory of their life.'

Countless fans person had their lives transformed by his enthusiasm, his free-thinking and eccentric readiness to instrumentality risks. Meeting them was 1 of the large pleasures of his life, helium said.

'I emotion chatting. People often halt maine successful the street, and I truly bask uncovering retired what's going connected with them. It's a fantastic feeling erstwhile radical archer you that you person helped to crook their lives around.'