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A search is underway for British explorer Benedict Allen who has gone missing in the jungle of Papua New Guinea during an expedition for a BBC documentary. Allen (57) was travelling alone to try to find the Yaifo tribe, one of the few remaining tribes in the world who have zero contact with the outside world, when he went missing.
He was expected to travel back to the capital of Port Moresby by Sunday. However, his sister has said she was expecting to hear from him by Monday but has received no contact and that he failed to take his flight to Hong Kong. A helicopter pilot who dropped Allen off in the jungle a number of weeks ago is currently trying to find him.
Allen has a website in which he documents some of his adventures through blog posts. The latest entry on his blog is titled: I may be some time In it, he writes about the Yaifo tribe and notes that no outside has made the journey to visit them since the journey he made 30 years ago.
In October, Im hiring a helicopter to drop me off at the abandoned mission station, Bisorio a forlorn place that was featured briefly on the BBC programme. If and only if it seems ethical, Ill try to assemble a small party, as I did all those years ago, and head off up-slope into the mists to visit the Yaifo in their remote abode, he wrote.
He said that it was somewhat worrying that he has no obvious means of returning to the outside world.
http://www.thejournal.ie/benedict-allen-missing-papua-new-guinea-3697894-Nov2017/
He was expected to travel back to the capital of Port Moresby by Sunday. However, his sister has said she was expecting to hear from him by Monday but has received no contact and that he failed to take his flight to Hong Kong. A helicopter pilot who dropped Allen off in the jungle a number of weeks ago is currently trying to find him.
Allen has a website in which he documents some of his adventures through blog posts. The latest entry on his blog is titled: I may be some time In it, he writes about the Yaifo tribe and notes that no outside has made the journey to visit them since the journey he made 30 years ago.
In October, Im hiring a helicopter to drop me off at the abandoned mission station, Bisorio a forlorn place that was featured briefly on the BBC programme. If and only if it seems ethical, Ill try to assemble a small party, as I did all those years ago, and head off up-slope into the mists to visit the Yaifo in their remote abode, he wrote.
He said that it was somewhat worrying that he has no obvious means of returning to the outside world.
http://www.thejournal.ie/benedict-allen-missing-papua-new-guinea-3697894-Nov2017/
