‘Unnecessary deaths’: relatives mourn US family who died off the grid

Trevala Jara remembers her stepsister Becky Vance as a caring and loving person' who thought she was saving' her son and sister Christine Vance

Abandoning human civilization for a life of adventure in the mountains is a fascination for many, but for one Colorado Springs family the dangers of living off the grid were made brutally apparent. Last week, the remains of Rebecca Becky" Vance, 42, her sister Christine Vance, 41, and Becky's 14-year-old were found at a remote campsite a year after setting off for a new life in the Rocky Mountains.

I'd had a feeling around March that something had happened to them and wanted to go to the mountains to see if they were up there," Becky and Christine's stepsister Trevala Jara, 39, said. But those mountains are huge. Where would you start?"