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30 years after the Gaisseau expedition which signed the first crossing of New Guinea south-north, two young people decide to put their steps in those of their elder. With the expedition's photos and a good dose of recklessness as their viaticum, they produce a testimony on the changes that have occurred in the Papuan tribes. Escaping the surveillance of the Indonesian military, they walk to the meeting of the forbidden mountain. More than 1 000 kilometers trying in territories where live fascinating Papuans cutters of stone axe...



What became the pygmoïd Papuans that the Gaisseau-Delloye expedition had discovered in 1960? Thirty years later, Arnoult Seveau and Luc-Henri Fage are the first to make the same crossing, from the south to the north of Indonesian New Guinea. Escaping the surveillance of the military, without any external support, they walk to the meeting of the forbidden mountain. More than a thousand very trying kilometers, through uncontrolled territories where live fascinating Papuans who cut stone axes.

A mysterious little bottle buried at 3700 m of altitude, inextricable primary forests clinging to the clouds, nomads said to be cannibals, a bamboo raft, a shipwreck, snakes and larvae to survive...



Arnoult and Luc-Henri offer us a warm and passionate ode to nature and to these men who live out of time, on the last unexplored lands of the planet.

Far from the sterile exploit, their journey was led as a great investigation. Their film is a precious testimony on these extraordinary tribes, whose culture is threatened today under the simultaneous pressure of missionaries and the Indonesian administration.



It is to the Papuans, these great "little men" of the mountains, the ultimate custodians of the memory of the mists, that A. Seveau and L.-H. Fage dedicate their beautiful adventure...

French version.



• Grand Prix of the first Jules Verne Adventure Festival Paris 1992


• Grand Prize of the Geography Society, International Geography Film Festival, Saint-Dié, 1992
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Special Jury Prize, Dijon Adventure Film Festival 1992


• Special Jury Prize and Exploration Film Prize, Autrans Mountain and Adventure Film Festival, 1992

 



A film by Luc-Henri Fage and Arnoult Seveau | 52 minutes | Images Luc-Henri Fage | Montage Pierre Boccanfuso | Production TarentulaProduction, with the participation of Canal Plus.

Broadcast by Discovery Channel.