What the Hell Happened to the Man Who Mapped the Amazon?

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
Seems he encountered something overpowering.
Hostile tribe? Disease? Giant snake? Something more menacing?

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When Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his expedition team walked into the Amazon jungle in April 1925, they left instructions that no one should attempt to rescue them should they not walk out of that same jungle by 1927. So confident was Fawcett in his capabilities, he cautioned that if they were to die, the conditions would have to have been so dangerous that an attempted rescue would only compound the tragedy.

Was it a premonition or a warning that they did not want to be found? Fawcett and his team never did come out of the jungle. In the 91 years since they disappeared, 100 potential rescuers died trying to figure out what happened. Still, the debate of what happened to Fawcett rages on.

Getting lost in an unmapped jungle the size of the continental U.S. isn’t that difficult to imagine. Humans in the Amazon are lower on the food chain than poisonous frogs and elusive jaguars, and a teeny microbe of dysentery could do anyone in. Still, for nearly 80 years, the most logical solutions to Fawcett’s disappearance was rarely floated as an option. Getting lost or sick would have been far too “normal” a fate for this enigmatic man.
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Source: What the Hell Happened to the Man Who Mapped the Amazon? - adventure journal
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
In the movie The Lost City of Z, it is implied that he and his son were captured and killed by hostile natives. The area in which they disappeared was known to have some very unsavory tribes, some of which practiced canibalism.

The Lost City of Z (film) - Wikipedia
 
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