Packed with a coconut and a can of cola-light, he traveled to one of the most dangerous islands in the world to meet a sealed and protected indigenous people. He was lucky: the people ignored his attempts at contact. The young man, who would like to be an adventurer, is now in custody.
The Indian police now made the incident public. The man is the American Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov (24). He traveled to the remote island of North Sentinel Island (If).
The Sentinelese people live here. The thousand -year -old tribe has no contact with the outside world – and does not want to have one. The Indian government respects this wish, the island declared the restricted area. Indian law does not apply here. A visit is life -threatening for modern people.
The Sentinelese stand on an island beach of Wache, in 2018 they killed a young man who traveled to the island to missionary them
There are hardly any photos of them: in 2018 the shy indigenous people could be filmed from a distance
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The last contact between indigenous people and civilization ended: When a Christian missionary traveled to the island in 2018, they shot on him with arrows. His body was never recovered.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov (24) still thought it was a good idea to secretly travel to the Sentinelese. The American is used to peculiar situations: on a small YouTube account (almost 700 followers), he reports on his questionable adventures, including his trip to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
An indigener runs to his trunk with a spear in hand
Polyakov chugged nine hours in a rubber boat over the Indian ocean, hired Sentinel Island in front of North and stared into his binoculars to catch a glimpse of the tribal dwellers.
Finally he put coconut and Cola Light on the beach as a gifts, blew into a pipe to get her attention. When nobody appeared, he drove back to the mainland.
The North Sentinel Island of indigenous people belongs to the Adamane island group in the Indian Ocean
His adventure was then over there: local fishermen had alerted the police who arrested him.
The end of his trip: Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov (24) in Indian owl
Incidentally, the wing of the YouTuber could have fatal to the Sentinelese: their immune system is not adapted to modern civilization. Even a runny nose can kill it.