Crazy Expedition: No One Has Ever Paddled the Baliem River in Papua New Guinea

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In his latest venture, BAFTA-winning British explorer Steve Backshall attempts to conquer one of the world's most dangerous, uncharted rivers, the Baliem River in Papua. A river teeming with crocodiles, where a bad rowing stroke can mean certain death, and along which live tribes whose women cut off their own fingers during times of mourning. In one of the world's wildest jungles, Backshall is not spared by disease or culture shock – Hungarian v…