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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.

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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 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. Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea.Entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks. Adrenaline 2002: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival. 'Adventure on the High Seas.' Reader's Digest. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival. Climb: Stories of Survival from Rock, Snow and Ice.

Panic Rising: True Life Survivor Tales from the Great Outdoors. Amputee Aims to Scale New Peaks.' CBS News. Rescue: Stories of Survival From Land and Sea. A Powerful Story of Self-Discovery, Survival in the Wild.' Los Angeles Times. Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance.

'Man tells of surviving 70 days in outback on diet of frogs and snakes.' The Guardian. The Best Adventure and Survival Stories 2003. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies and Why. 'Review: Tami Oldham Ashcraft: Red Sky in Mourning.' June 16, 2002.