season four episode eleven

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 Yossi Ghinsberg is an adventurer.  A wandering soul seeking not the  prize of a conquest, but a connection with tribal cultures around the  world.  He is a best-selling author, award winning speaker and was  featured on the Discovery Channel.

After finishing his hitch with  the Israeli navy, Yossi traveled to South America in search of his dream  of finding the El Dorado and of befriending a lost Amazonian tribe.  He  and three others set off into the uncharted jungle in the Madidi region  of the Amazon.  The hardships of the jungle caused two of his fellow  adventurers to split of and attempt to return to civilization.  They  were never seen again.  A rafting accident on the Tuichi River left  Yossi alone in this inhospitable place.  Attacked by insects (Yossi had  to cut burrowing worms out of his forehead), stalked by jaguar, hungry  and alone, Yossi fought to survive.  This epic story of adventure and  survival is the basis of his best-selling book Lost in the Jungle and the movie Jungle.

This  ordeal transformed him.  He learned that “The gift of life is not to be  taken for granted.  Nothing is mundane, it is all a miracle.”  A  philosophy expressed in his late friend Vesty Pakos’ war cry “Where is  it? Where is it?  It is here! It is here!”  Yossi continues today  traveling the world in his unique style seeking out tribal  cultures-befriending the Bedouin, traveling through the Sahara, and  living among the islanders on Carteret Island in Papua New Guinea.