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| An explorer who went missing in the Papua New Guinean jungle has been found alive and well and has asked for a rescue party to be sent to pick him up, it has been reported. | An explorer who went missing in the Papua New Guinean jungle has been found alive and well and has asked for a rescue party to be sent to pick him up, it has been reported. |
| Benedict Allen, who has made programmes for the BBC, had gone travelling in an attempt to find the Yaifo tribe, one of the few left in the world that has little to no contact with outsiders and whom he first met 30 years ago. | Benedict Allen, who has made programmes for the BBC, had gone travelling in an attempt to find the Yaifo tribe, one of the few left in the world that has little to no contact with outsiders and whom he first met 30 years ago. |
| The BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner, who met up with Allen just before he left and who sought to publicise the 57-year-old’s disappearance after he missed a planned flight home, said his friend had been sighted. | |
| Speaking on BBC Breakfast on Thursday, Gardner said: “He has been sighted alive and well near a remote airstrip in Papua New Guinea having trekked vast distances. He has requested rescue and efforts are under way to get him out. This is only a reported sighting, but it is the second sighting and it’s a tribal commission that has been looking for him and they have reported him in. So unless they have got it horribly wrong, and I’m not aware of any other lost British explorers in that part of Papua New Guinea, Benedict Allen is safe and well.” | |
| UK explorer @benedictallen has been sighted, 'alive and well' nr airstrip in Papua New Guinea after being reported missing while trekking. pic.twitter.com/8neKeC9IGS | UK explorer @benedictallen has been sighted, 'alive and well' nr airstrip in Papua New Guinea after being reported missing while trekking. pic.twitter.com/8neKeC9IGS |
| The Foreign Office said it was looking into the reports. | |
| Allen was expected to have returned to the capital, Port Moresby, by Sunday to catch a flight to Hong Kong, where he was scheduled to speak to the Royal Geographical Society. | |
| Allen is father to Beatrice, 2, Freddie, 7, and Natalya, 10, and was travelling in rural Papua New Guinea without a phone or GPS device. | |
| The last post on his blog is is titled: “I may be some time …” | |
| In it, he writes: “The Yaifo, a band of people I made first outside contact with some 30 years ago, are still living in the remote Central Range of PNG. Furthermore, no outsider has made the journey to visit them since the rather perilous journey I made as a young man three decades ago. This would make them the remotest people in Papua New Guinea, and one of the last people on the entire planet who are out-of-contact with our interconnected world. | |
| “In October I’m hiring a helicopter to drop me off at the abandoned mission station, Bisorio … If – and only if – it seems ethical, I’ll 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. The aim is to create a brief record of their lives …” |