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Cannibals and Crampons
2002 · Film · documentary · 52 min
Directed by Bruce Parry, Mark Anstice
The explorers Bruce Parry and Mark Anstice climb the remote and little known mountain Puncak Mandala in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. They have to cross remote jungles, climb icy cliffs and navigate the curiosity and fear of indigenous peoples in order to get to the top.
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There's footage / DVD from his trip also - up on youtube some is, IIRC :-)
Yeah, sore bum, ouchies. That can be bypassed if you don't mind walking, don't mind camels, and don't mind being thought a bit girly:
* https://www.sidetracked.com/fieldjournal/crossing-australia-sophie-matterson-and-her-five-camels/
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robyn_Davidson
Our family doesn't mind a long jolly, one of my favourites (that someone else did) was into the more restricted bits of Papua: Cannibals & Crampons (2001)
In 2001, two British ex army officers set out to climb the unscaled face of Mandela--a remote mountain rising 15,400 ft. above the jungles of New Guinea. This is the extraordinary story of their trek through some of the world's most unexplored terrain.
* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2142721/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIfMP8rfg0