By David Robie
They have been dubbed the “Persian Indiana Joneses”. Their adventures are fabled and hair-raising, as shown by a Jivaro shrunken human head and relics from curious rituals on display from almost 70 years ago.
But the Omidvar brothers from Iran were no gung-ho adventurers, merely gatecrashing hidden tribal and indigenous communities around the world. They were also no elitists.
They were courageous research adventurers and their motto was “all different – all relative”.
Pacific Media Centre director David Robie’s brief interview with Issa Omidvar, younger brother of the pair of explorers, in Tehran in September 2019.
Video: Del Abcede
- Read David’s full article here: https://asiapacificreport.nz/2019/10/20/irans-great-global-adventurers-around-the-lost-world-in-10-years/
- Café Pacific, (CC) 2019: http://cafepacific.blogspot.com/
- Pacific Media Centre: https://pmc.aut.ac.nz/
