I would have eaten human flesh.“When you reach that level of hunger, nothing is disgusting, nothing is appalling.”Two weeks into the trip, they were no closer to finding the tribe or the gold. He said: “The second swamp I fell in, I couldn’t pull myself out. I couldn’t take the pain.“I dragged myself to a tree full of fire ants and shook it on my head. I thought, ‘I’m not going to die.’ ”There were times over the next weeks that he began to doubt that, however. The three met Karl Ruprechter in La Paz, an Austrian expatriate claiming to be a geologist, who inspired the trip after promising to be their guide down the Tuichi River. He faced attacks from wild boar, the constant threat of poisonous snakes, endless termite bites — and, on his sixth night alone in the jungle, that hungry jaguar.Yossi had been asleep when he was awoken by rustling, and woke up face-to-face with the big cat.Its eyes were locked on him and it was about to move in for the kill.With no weapon, he grabbed the only things he had to hand — a can of mosquito repellent and a lighter — and improvised the flame-thrower.Yossi said: “I learnt the trick from a James Bond movie.”But the worst experience of all as he hiked day after day in what he hoped was the direction of the nearest settlement was the flesh and skin tearing from his feet.They became so infected that soon he had no skin left. I was very scared. After a long and fruitless hunt Kevin and the man had just given up and were turning back when Yossi spotted their boat on the river.He said: “I tried to run and scream but found myself frozen and speechless.“It was a miracle that Kevin looked back and saw me.” Yossi had lost more than two and a half stone and was “skin hanging on bones”.
I felt it was over.“But the moment she was there, suddenly I had responsibility.”On top of everything else, Yossi also nearly drowned — twice — after the worst storm in a decade hit the area. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. I drank up every word he said.
"The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. They didn’t hesitate to follow him into the vast and dangerous wilderness. Locals still see his survival as a miracle.He explained: “They say they wouldn’t have been able to make it.”Marcus and Karl never came back from the expedition and no trace of them has ever been found.Yossi later learned that Karl, played by Thomas Kretschmann in He said: “He was no geologist and there was no tribe or gold.”Now a tech entrepreneur and motivational speaker living in Australia with third wife Belinda and their three children, Yossi still spends a lot of time travelling.“I’m more experienced and responsible now but no less naive and keen to live my life as a great adventure.” Dani Dyer fans claim pregnant star accidentally revealed she's having a boy Man Utd eye swoop for Real Madrid’s Sergio Reguilon after Chelsea sign Chilwell Boy, 5, is fighting for life after 'worst case of child beating' Shoppers share mega IKEA bargains such as £255 sofa for £30 & a cot under £20 Chase's 'Beast' & wife split so she can date lover after failed open marriage©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. In China, after 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. Before embarking into the Amazon, an Austrian man named Karl Ruprechter approached Yossi and his friends in La Paz. Ruprechter explained to the two friends that he was planning an expedition into the uncharted Bolivian rainforest in search of gold. It … Of course I wouldn’t have killed someone and eaten them but I can understand how people eat human flesh in that situation.“I would have eaten anything. The level of pain is beyond my ability to describe.”But he managed to struggle to the riverbank where, all alone and without his luggage, he suddenly realised a quick death over the falls might have been his best option.He recalled: “I thought I would have a long, miserable and violent death.”But when his backpack was washed ashore, it gave him hope.He said: “When I’d been drafted to the army, my uncle had given me a book and it was in the backpack.He’d been through the Holocaust and told me the book had protected him — it was a religious book with no title.“I didn’t believe in it. Austrian Karl Ruprechter claimed to be a geologist and jungle expert, and promised to lead him to a river full of gold and a lost tribe. We’ll do more to save someone else’s life than our own because I couldn’t help myself any more. I freaked out because if she’s not there it means I’m crazy.“I thought I’d lost my sanity. But on the river I burst into tears when I found it. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed Daniel Radcliffe battles treacherous waters during a scene for Jungle Daniel plays the part of Yossi Ghinsberg, an Israeli backpacker who was lost in the Amazon jungle for 20 days Yossi travelled to Bolivia in 1981 after he completed his military service in Israel The Israeli adventurer was 20 when he went to the Amazonian rainforest Yossi, portrayed by Daniel, nearly drowned twice during his nightmare trek The film about the jungle trek will be released next week The group were led into the jungle by Karl Ruprechter, who it transpired was not a geologist as he claimed but a criminal Today Yoshi is a tech entrepreneur and motivational speaker He told the eager young backpackers that he was planning an expedition in search of gold in a hidden, ancient village deep … The waves of pain and adrenaline distracted me from my feet.”On the 17th day, a plane flew overhead but did not see him.He recalled: “When the plane passed it just broke me, that surge of hope was the worst thing that happened to me.”Yossi was sobbing in the mud when, to his amazement, he looked up and seemed to see a girl.He said: “She appeared in the worst moment when I really gave up.
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