for "playboy" (february 1988) at the height of the "sensitive man" era, e. jean told her editors that "modern women run around complaining that they want a primitive man, so i thought it would be fun to come to new guinea and find a real one." carroll hiked into the star mountains with an atbalmin tracker and a telefomin warrior. she became the first white woman to walk from telefomin to munbil in the former west irian jaya, and nearly died.