Abstract
In the obscure, misty light of dawn on the 7th July, 1971, a long line of three hundred men, including two white reporters and an observer team of the University of Papua New Guinea, climbed the path to Mount Rurun (1178 m), the most prominent peak in the Prince Alexander Range, west of Wewak in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. The participants worked under the bidding of two leaders to see that two bulky, 80 kg cement blocks, which had been dug out previously, were securely fastened to long carrying poles. In the tense, expectant air, muffled by the fog, some brief speeches were made, but it was not long before the first set of carriers seized the poles and set off down the
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