When Darwin was an old man, he looked back on his time aboard the Beagle, and reflected that the forests of Tierra del Fuego and meeting the ‘naked savages’ of Tierra del Fuego were unforgettable experiences. Asked whether he was aware that the community (Acer) provided borehole water for themselves without government assistance, Bako said, “I am aware that they contributed money for the borehole water and that’s why I said they live in the world of their own helping each other. Another member of their group grabs a blue material that looks like either a towel or a piece of clothing. The 1835 earthquake and finding the fossilised shells and forests in the high Andes were dramatic evidence of how the Earth had changed (and continued to change) over innumerable years, providing the timeframe for evolution. Despite the savage cold and prodigious rain, the Yaghan sported no clothes and when on land only bunkered down in flimsy wigwams.

Since Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution by means of natural selection, and apparently – and I stress ‘apparently’ – there is no direct link between what he did and recorded while in Chile with the theory he later developed, that part of his trip has been greatly ignored. From the Chilean sub-Antarctic to Patagonia; from the virtually untouched island of Chiloé up to the arid north; and from the foothills of the Andes to peaks of the longest mountain range in the world, Chile offered an extraordinary range of habitats, climates, species and geology. The Maiugunwa, a 70-year-old man, said since the Kambari people know nothing about what others may term civilised fashion and beautiful clothes hold no appeal for them.The people of this primitive tribe are mostly into farming and are unilineal as their sons inherit their father's properties while daughters, their mothers. Dr Stasch’s advice and insight was crucial in our process of developing a series around these new themes, that I believe represents the Korowai culture more accurately and truthfully than other accounts.

At one point one of the men blatantly steals a machete-type knife while another takes an ax from a settlement, despite shouts of protest by the villagers. Kamuna explained that his people dress half naked as part of their culture and that nobody has a right to force them to change, since Christians and Muslims cannot be forced to change their religions. After a nine-hour mountain climb, he found these descendants of the Kwararafa Kingdom scattered around on the mountains in Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba State. The landscape of glaciers, fjords and forests in Tierra del Fuego certainly awed him, and made him feel small against the power of nature, but his encounters with the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego were also extremely important.International audiences now benefit from a more accurate understanding of the Korowai and other indigenous people in similar circumstances. Another tradition that they value and cherish is the festival of their god, which is celebrated once in a year. The tribal men are naked except for belts and loincloths and carry different weapons, including bows and arrows and spears in the 8-minute video. The two communities hold tenaciously to their culture and tradition to an extent that they insist that nothing would change their ways of life.