NZ explorer and author laments plight of West Papuans
A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he's saddened to see what colonisation has done to the region's indigenous people. Philip Temple, who is also a renowned author, was part of a small group who made the first recorded ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid in West Papua in 1962 before Dutch colonial rule ended. Philip Temple, adventurer & author, first ascentionist of West Papua's Puncak Jaya, in his New Zealand office. Photo: Maja Moritz "The Dutch had already given (West Papua) its own flag and all that sort of thing. And in fact when we made the first as...
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