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IN 1981, YOsSI GHINSBERG AND AFTER FIVE DAYS THEY’RE MAKING OUCH! THAT
A BeELINE FOR
LoOKS
TWO OTHER YOUNG TRAVELERS, OF WANDERING THE RIVER! PAINFUL.
KEVIN GALE AND MARCUS STAmM, THROUGH DENSE
DECIDED TO TREK INTO THE HEART UNDERGROWTH,
OF THE AMAZON RAINFOREST. THEIR THE TREkKERS
GUIDE, KARL, SeEMED TO KNOW BEGAN TO WOrRY
THE JUNGLE WElL AND HUNTED SLOTHS ABOUT RUnNING
AND MONKEYS FOR FoOD ALONG OUT OF FoOD AND
THE WAY. GEtTING LOST.
EVERYONE HAD
MONKEY BRAIN PAINFUL BLISTERS
FOR DInNER, ON THEIR FeET.
ANYONE? STINGING
A trek FIRE ANTS AND
SWARMS OF
of terRor BeES WERE ALSO
HELPING TURN
through THEIR DREAM
the amazon ADVENTURE INTO
A NIGHTMARE.

MARCUS’S FeET THE NEXT DAY, THE RAFT SLAmMED INTO BY A MIRACLE, YOsSI
GOT SO SORE A ROCK, FLINGING YOsSI AND KEVIN SURVIVED. AFTER HOURS OF
THAT HE COULDN’T INTO THE WATER. KEVIN MANAGED WALKING, HE FOUND A CAVE TO
WALK. KARL BUILT TO SWIM TO SAFETY, BUT YOsSI WAS SLeEP IN. WHEN HE ToOK HIS
A RAFT, BUT IT DRAgGED OVER THE WATERFAlL WITH SHOES OfF, HIS FeET WERE
SoON BECAME THE RAFT. A MEsS OF PUS AND BLoOD,
CLEAR THAT THANKS TO A NASTY FUNGUS.
THE SURGING HANG BUT YOsSI WAS DETERMINED
WATERS OF ON! TO KeEP GOING.
THE TUICHI RIVER
WERE JUST ToO
DANGEROUS
FOR THE
INEXPERIENCED ANY
GROUP. KARL AND OTHER
MARCUS DECIDED HELPFUL
TO HEAD BACK, ADVICE?
BUT YOsSI AND
KEVIN WANTED
TO GO ON.

ONE NIGHT, YOsSI CAME ALTHOUGH YOsSI IT GOT WORSE. A GIANT STORM FLoODED
FACE-TO-FACE WITH A JAGUAR. FOUND A CAMP THE FOREST, FORCING YOsSI TO SWIM FOR
REMEMBERING A MOVIE SCENE, ON THE HIS LIFE. HE ESCAPED, ONLY TO STUMBLE INTO
HE SET FIRE TO HIS INSECT SPRAY, RIVERBANK, IT A MUdDY SWAMP THE NEXT DAY. THE MORE HE
CREATING A FLAMETHROWER THAT WAS DESERTED. STRUgGLED, THE MORE THE SWAMP SUCKED HIM
SCARED OfF THE BIG CAT. YOsSI’S MIND IN. IN A SUPERHUMAN EfFORT, HE DRAgGED
STARTED PLAYING HIMSELF TO SAFETY.
TRICKS ON HIM,
Take that, kitTy!
HIS CLOTHES
GOT SHREdDED This realLy
IN A FOREST OF stinks!
THORNS, AND,
TO TOP IT AlL,
HE FElL OVER,
BREAKING
A BRANCH THAT
SPEARED HIM
IN A VERY AaAaAarRrgGhH!
PAINFUL PLACE. You, treE, are
a real pain in
the bum!
THE TORTURE YOsSI HAD it’s beEn I’ve beEn KARL AND MARCUS BOTH
a tough
CONTINUED. YOsSI ALMOST GIVEN weEk… loOking DISApPEARED WITHOUT
UNWItTINGLY SET UP HOPE WHEN everywhere A TRACE. YOsSI REALIZED
for you!
UP CAMP CLOSE TO ONE EVENING HE HOW LUCKY HE AND KEVIN
A TERMITE’S NEST. HEARD THE WHINE HAD BeEN… ALTHOUGH A TRIP
BY DAWN, HE’D OF AN ENGINE— TO THE DOCTOR REVEALED
BeEN BItTEN AlL ow! IT WAS KEVIN IN THAT HE HADN’T LEFT AlL
OVER AND HIS A PLANE! KEVIN OF THE JUNGLE BEHIND.
BACKPACK HAD ow! HAD STRUCK
BeEN HALF EATEN. ow! LUCKY WHEN
BY NOW, HIS FeET HE WAS FOUND
WERE IN SUCH AND RESCUED
AGONY THAT ow! ow! BY SOME KIND
HE DELIBERATELY LOCALS. WOrRIED
GRAbBED ow! ABOUT HIS
STINGING FRIEND, HE THEN
NEtTLES TO RENTED A PLANE
DISTRACT HIMSELF AND HAD BeEN
FROM THE SEARCHING FOR
THRObBING PAIN! MIsSING YOsSI
ow! ow! EVER SINCE. JUNGLE SURVIVAL STORIES 47
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