In 1986, Heyerdahl was back on Easter Island
In 1986 Heyerdahl was back on Easter Island for the “Moai walking Experiment”.
Heyerdahl was aided by the Czech engineer Pavel Pavel and a group of sixteen local residents in an attempt to move a standing moai by pulling it with ropes attached to the statue’s head and base. They managed to get the 15-ton statue to “walk” without much difficulty.
Heyerdahl concluded that the mystery of how the statues had been transported was solved.