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The Tribal Survival Team

The Team of Tribal Survival are Charles Montanaro, Jane Montanaro and Adam Montanaro.

The medical expeditions would only be possible thanks to the dedication of a team of intrepid Doctors who have generously offered their time and expertise to venture into remote jungles. These have included Doctors Nicholas Fazakerley, Maryke Nielsen and Jonny Hodges.

Several members of Montanaro Asset Management are actively involved in organising medical expeditions and promoting Tribal Survival including Lowri Brown, Ed Heaven and Cedric Durant des Aulnois.

There are over 150 million tribal people living in more than 60 countries worldwide. Of these, at least 70 ‘uncontacted’ tribes continue to live with little or no interaction with outsiders.

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Charles Montanaro

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Charles graduated with an honours degree in Anthropology from Durham University in 1976. He spent four years in industry before joining Merrill Lynch in 1980 as a private client broker in London. He joined Dean Witter Reynolds in 1984 and Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1987 as a Senior Vice President where, in both cases, he was their top institutional broker in the UK, joining the high-yield bond department in 1989. In 1990, Charles joined MMG Patricof (now Apax Partners) as a Director of investment banking working with UK private and public smaller companies.

In August 1991, he founded Montanaro to specialise in analysing and investing in quoted European smaller companies on behalf of leading institutions. He has since launched and managed several funds and established a strong track record. In addition, he has served on the Boards of two public smaller companies. He was appointed a Director of the Montanaro European Smaller Companies plc on 12 January 2012.

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BA (Hons) Anthropology, Durham University (1976)

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Charles, with his inexhaustible supply of energy, is rooting for Arsenal when he isn’t motivating his own team.

A pity his enthusiastic approach doesn’t work with fish. Despite numerous attempts, he has yet to catch a trout, let alone a salmon. Although he did catch a piranha during his first trip up the Amazon and is now known as “the white Huaorani” following his second adventure in search of undiscovered tribes in the jungles of Ecuador.

Having survived his first London marathon in a vain attempt to get fit, he spent time in the jungles of Papua with the stone-age Korowai and Kombai who had not seen a white man before. Although practising cannibals, he was clearly too tough for their taste and survived the adventure – narrowly avoiding a native attempting to shoot his bow and arrow first and ask questions later…

In search of truly undiscovered people, he was temporarily kidnapped in Mamberamo by an unknown tribe where he found that not all natives are friendly. Undeterred, he went hunting with the Yanomami in Venezuela and the Embera of Panama at the end of 2007 where he got eaten alive by mosquitos and nasty little nigwas and leeches. In 2008, with his wife to be Jane, he tried his hand at climbing steep hills firstly in Kashmir and then in Bhutan where he met the new King before climbing 18,000 feet to see what altitude sickness felt like. An unexpected 40 kilometre hike in the snow (abandoned by a guide who was lost) nearly ended badly.

He survived running the Bulls of Pamplona as a pre-cursor to further exploits among indigenous tribes. These included walking safaris with the San people in Botswana and fishing with Australian aborigines. A return trip in 2009 to the jungles of Irian Jaya (the Korowai) saw him going native and returning with a stick through his nose – much to the disapproval of his wife (since removed – the stick that is). In 2011, Charles explored the jungles of Sumatra with the Mentawai.

In 2013, Charles founded and largely funded Tribal Survival, a charity aimed at improving the lives of indigenous people living in remote jungles by providing access to Western doctors and medicine. In 2014, a five-year programme was initiated with the assistance of the World Health Organisation to eradicate Lymphatic Filariasis (elephantiasis) among the Korowai.

For a change, Charles chose to spend time with indigenous people living in colder climates. In 2017, he spent a fortnight hunting on dog sleds with a remote community of Inuit in Kulusuk (Greenland). 2018 saw him living with the Nenet, reindeer herdsmen in Yamal (North West Siberia). In both cases, temperatures below minus 30 – 40 degrees were not uncommon and hairs in his nostrils froze.

November 2019 saw a return to the Korowai of West Papua where humidity was almost 100 degrees. Not sure which is worse. Once again, he returned with a stick through his nose but also an earring – his wife even less impressed. Where to next?

Our Team

The Tribal Survival Team

The Team of Tribal Survival are Charles Montanaro, Jane Montanaro and Adam Montanaro.

Charles Montanaro

Adam Montanaro

Jane Montanaro

Zoe Montanaro

The medical expeditions would only be possible thanks to the dedication of a team of intrepid Doctors who have generously offered their time and expertise to venture into remote jungles. These have included Doctors Nicholas Fazakerley, Maryke Nielsen and Jonny Hodges.

Jonathan Hodges

Several members of Montanaro Asset Management are actively involved in organising medical expeditions and promoting Tribal Survival including Lowri Brown, Ed Heaven and Cedric Durant des Aulnois.

Cedric Durant des Aulnois

Lowri Brown

Ed Heaven

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