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.
They hoped to explore the southwestern part of the country, the Asmat region.
The duo were sailing in a large 40-foot canoe around three miles from the shore when they capsized.
Wassing, who took the voyage in a bid to study the tribesmen, was rescued while floating in the Arafura Sea, but Rockefeller was never seen again - and his disappearance remains a mystery.
Many people believe that he washed up on shore and the cannibalistic Asmat tribe happened upon him.
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