Explorers have some guts, there's no questioning that. Whether they're venturing into space, cave systems, voyaging the sea, or discovering new land... their duties have helped mankind map the world as we know it.
Michael Rockefeller, the son of former US Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, was doing just that when he contacted a tribe of cannibals.
In November 1961, the 23-year-old was on his second expedition of Dutch New Guinea - which is now called West Papua, an Indonesian province on the island of New Guinea - with anthropologist René Wassing, of Netherlands.
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