Humanizing the story means focusing on the human factors: the courage of those who risked their lives in the pursuit of exploration and adventure, the families leftbehind, and the search and rescue efforts to locate the missing.
They've often left buildings and artifacts behind, yet without the existence of a recorded history, we may never know what actually caused their decline.
The hope I had managed to gather within my few minutes of crawling vanished immediately. I was just stifled in my position waiting for the sound of the gun, imagining the bullet entering wherever in my body.