![]() ![]() He spent four days traveling upriver in search of Gale before finally coming to the realization that he was stranded alone in the jungle. Gale made it to shore, but Ghinsberg floated downriver and over the waterfall. Īs Ghinsberg and Gale's raft neared a waterfall, they lost control and became separated. The four men resolved to reconvene before Christmas, in La Paz. His deceit and betrayal led to distrust within the group and ended with the group's splitting up: Gale and Ghinsberg decided to continue rafting downriver to Rurrenabaque, while Ruprechter and Stamm decided to walk up the Ipurama River to Ipurama village, near the river's source, and return from there to Apolo. There, Ruprechter suddenly told them about San Pedro Canyon – a dangerous series of rapids, waterfalls, and boulders unsuitable for boating – and the fact that he could not swim, and thus refused to continue on the trip. With the villagers' help, they built the raft, pursued their new route downriver, and arrived at the confluence of rivers Tuichi–Ipurama. Under these conditions, they decided to abandon their journey and return to Asariamas.īack at Asariamas, Karl told them about his new plan: sailing on a raft down the Tuichi River to a small gold quarry called Curiplaya, on the river bed, and from there downriver to Rurrenabaque, near the Beni River, and then return to La Paz. Stamm refused to eat monkeys and inevitably grew physically weaker. ![]() Eventually, low on supplies, they had to eat monkeys. Then, according to Karl's stories about having visited an ancient indigenous village hidden deep within the rainforest – inhabited by "primitives" who had seen very few white men in their lifetime – the group began traveling up the Asariamas River and across the mountains on their way there. Ģ2-year-old Ghinsberg and his two friends followed Ruprechter by plane to Apolo, La Paz, and from there traveled down to the Tuichi River and to a local village called Asariamas, at the confluence of rivers Tuichi–Asariamas. The four of them, never having had prior contact with each other, delved into a Bolivian adventure seeking gold. ![]() Ghinsberg, who sought out the opportunity to explore the unexplored areas of the Amazon, immediately joined Ruprechter in his journey, along with two of Ghinsberg's new acquaintances, Marcus Stamm, and Kevin Gale, an American photographer. Ruprechter told Ghinsberg that he was planning an expedition into the uncharted Amazon in Bolivia, in search of gold in a remote, indigenous Tacana village. There, Ghinsberg met Karl Ruprechter, a mysterious Austrian who claimed to be a geologist. Ghinsberg hitchhiked from Venezuela to Colombia, where he met Markus Stamm, a teacher from Switzerland, in the midst of his expeditions, and the pair became good friends and traveled together to La Paz, Bolivia. By the time Ghinsberg was finally able to travel to South America, Charrière had passed away, and the tribes Ghinsberg was interested in discovering had been "civilized". He worked several jobs to save the money to travel to South America and dreamed of exploring the uninhabited heart of the Amazon jungle. Ghinsberg had briefly returned from an Africa to Mexico trip and longed for the rainforest immersion experience. Ghinsberg is now a tech-entrepreneur and the founder of the mobile applications Headbox, which integrates all social media activity into one feed, and Blinq, which provides social media and activity live updates.Īfter completing his service in the Israeli navy, Ghinsberg, inspired by the book Papillon by Henri Charrière, which detailed that author's experiences as an escaped convict, became determined to find Charrière and ask for his blessing to follow in his footsteps. Ghinsberg's story was also featured in the documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive on Discovery Channel. Ghinsberg's survival story was enacted in the 2017 psychological thriller Jungle, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg. Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story when he was stranded in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981. Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg ( Hebrew: יוסי גינסברג) (25 April 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. ![]() Entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker ![]()
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