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Feb 2023

44m 59s

Lost Deep In The Amazon Jungle

Jasmin Charlotte

About this episode

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering the story of Yossi Ghinsberg who went with a group into the depths of the Amazon in 1981. 4 of them would go into the jungle but after several harrowing weeks, not all of them would make it out. 7.

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Ghinsberg

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/the-jungle

Jungle - Yossi Ghinsberg

Jungle - movie, Amazon Prime

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