Title : 'Broke all the rules of survival': British explorer who got lost in PNG criticised
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'Broke all the rules of survival': British explorer who got lost in PNG criticised
An experienced Kokoda track tour operator has said a British explorer who got lost in Papua New Guinea should have had more appropriate communications equipment with him.
Fifty-seven-year-old Benedict Allen had gone to a remote part of the northern Enga province to meet up with the Yaifo tribe, who he described as having little or no contact with the outside world.
When he failed to turn up for a scheduled flight out of the country three weeks ago his family raised the alarm, and media around the world ran items about him, with some using words like "cannibal" and "headhunter".
He was located late on Tuesday near Porgera.
Kokoda track tour operator Charlie Lynn said things "just didn't add up" with the story of his disappearance.
"I thought 'Here we go again, we've got another British explorer or reality star wannabe going to Papua New Guinea to try and generate a sensational story, using the thing of remote jungles and crocodile infestation and cannibals and getting lost and then later on getting found'," Mr Lynn said.
"He's supposedly an experienced explorer, he's been there before, but to go into a remote area of Papua New Guinea without a GPS; and apparently he didn't make any plans for his own evacuation if he needed it, and he didn't let anybody know where he was going.
"He broke all the rules of survival — I just can't fathom that."
Mr Lynn said the story fuelled negative perceptions of the country in the international media.
"I've got to say Papua New Guinea don't help themselves a lot but they're the victims in these scams, if you like, where people come in and they make out they're backward jungle cannibals living in remote tribal areas and so forth," he said.
"It's just grist to the mill for a sensationalist newspaper report and it certainly gets international attention.
"I think it has a hugely negative impact on the perception of safety that people have for Papua New Guinea."
Mr Lynn said he had never had an incident in 26 years of going to Papua New Guinea.
"But there are rules that you don't break when you go up there, otherwise you're going to get into trouble," he said.
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