Jacek Palkiewicz, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Ph. D. Jacek Palkiewicz
Reporter and explorer, resides in Cassola in the Vicenza province of northern Italy. A graduate in Geographical Sciences, before becoming a journalist he was a mate officer, diamond prospector in Sierra Leone, and skipper of big yachts. He has been a glider pilot and karate black belt.

The last expedition: A voyage into the Korowai's stone-age world The Korowai live together in small family clans on their isolated territory in houses built high up in the Teres- from 20 to as high as 100 feet up.