“Bapa – Traversée intégrale Sud/Nord de la Papouasie de l´Ouest”

Adventure (), Maurice Thiney 52 min

IRIAN-JAYA, west part of NEW GUINEA, remains one of the few countries in the world where we still can meet prehistorical population. Maurice Thiney had some concerns about this expedition as the Papuans are in rebellion with bows and arrows against the Indonesian rule. Still, he took his backpack and went to meet this extraordinary tribes living in a dense, humid and inhospitable jungle often covered by swamps. He managed to penetrate the forbidden land of the MEMBERAMO river located between WAMENA and the north of IRIAN-JAYA. Here, the Papuans warriors are invisible but omnipresent. The dream that had obsessed Maurice for 7 years had just become true, when he reached the Northern Pacific. Crossing New Guinea from South to North, by feet and boot.