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Within The Unexplored Madidi

To the West of the Heath River

and the tribe of Toromonas

By Pablo Cingolani and Emmanouil Lalaios

 

The non yet published full of adventures eBook  

This is a complete story of the two Bolivian expeditions that continue the search in an unexplored territory at the borders of Bolivia and Peru to locate the source of the Heath River, a duty that was left incomplete by the legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett during his boundary work in the territory between 1906 and 1920. The members of the expedition also continue the search for the lost Norwegian biologist Lars and the tribe of Toromonas which is still one of the Bolivia's ethnographic enigma. The two expeditions that were organized by the Minister of  the Sustainable Development Department of the Republic of Bolivia, the Government of La Paz's State, the office in charge of National Park, the Bolivian Army and others important sponsors from La Paz are in order to call attention about the biodiversity, the protection of the environment, the environmental education and also to cover, 

Geographically, the River Heath from its fountains to the top (near Puerto Heath), 

Historically, to recreate Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett's Fifth Expedition routing to the roof of the world in 1911 in remembrance of his action and

Scientifically, to register the plants as well as the animals abiding in this territory that still has remained unexplored since the first decade of our century.

The house of Carlos Franck, which lodged the British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett during his trips by the zone in 1910-11 expedition to the Roof of the World.

 

Our "help raft" in the Tambopata River. Photo by Fernando Arispe

We have arrived to the nearest point which was 40 km away from the west fountain of the Heath River and we were able to recognize the route to this fountain from the top of a mountain at the altitude of 1797 meters

 

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