Atrocities: a man covers his face after witnessing women being brutally attacked. Photo: Brendan Esposito Brian Leahy's father was one of the first white men to set foot in the New Guinea highlands, among the last regions on Earth to be explored by Europeans. In 1934, Dan Leahy, with his brothers Mick and Jim from Queensland, went looking for gold over the forbidding mountain ranges that were thought to guard an impenetrable wilderness. Instead they found a vast network of temperate, fertile valleys that were home to a million people. The Leahys established one of the first coffee plantations on the outskirts of Mount Hagen. Now Brian Leahy runs the last of the coffee co-operatives that,...
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