[RwandaLibre] Dian Fossey: The woman in the mist

Dian Fossey: The woman in the mist



Remembering the extraordinary life and tragic death of the renowned

gorilla watcher



By Sarah Eberspacher and Lauren Hansen | 11:38am ET



1982: Dian Fossey sits with a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. |

(AP Photo/National Geographic Society)



The Rwandans called her Nyiramachabelli — "the woman who lives alone

on the mountain."



Indeed, zoologist Dian Fossey, who would have turned 82 today,

conducted her research without other humans nearby. But she was never

truly alone. Starting in 1966, Fossey took up residence with mountain

gorillas. They became her life's work.



A native of San Francisco, Fossey began her professional life as an

occupational therapist, but a 1963 trip to Africa and a meeting with

anthropologist Louis Leakey changed everything. Fossey subsequently

spent the next two decades studying primates, first in the Democratic

Republic of the Congo, and later in Rwanda. She is credited with

scoring the first recorded instance of peaceful gorilla-to-human

contact; a male gorilla named Peanuts touched her hand.



Fossey's favorite animal, a young male gorilla named Digit, was

beheaded by poachers in 1977, spurring Fossey to double down on her

research efforts and make even more vocal calls to the international

community to help save the primates from hunters. She published an

autobiography, Gorillas in the Mist, in 1983, which was later turned

into a successful movie starring Sigourney Weaver.



Fossey never saw the film. She was found dead on Dec. 26, 1985, alone

in her cabin, hacked to death by machetes. Her murder was never

solved, though authorities believe Fossey's assailants were likely the

same poachers she had rallied against.



1972: Dian Fossey watches a 400-pound gorilla in the Rwanda jungle. |

(AP Photo/National Geographic Society)



November 1, 1985: Fossey and her team. | (Yann Arthus-Bertrand/Corbis)

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Jan. 3, 1986: Fossey's coffin is lowered into the ground by friends

and co-workers in Mount Visoke, Rwanda. | (AP Photo/Brenton Kelly

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http://theweek.com/article/index/255198/dian-fossey-the-woman-in-the-mist





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