Escaping Death's Grip - I Shouldn't Be Alive - S01 E03 - Survival Documentary

around but the moment I turned on the light I saw a cat's face. He had a lighter and a can of repellent and I remember seeing that in a movie that you can actually set the repellent on fire the flame went out and there was no Jaguar. I managed to scare Setzer for the rest of the night until I started crying and screaming and shaking I was eating away at that fear I just realized I knew how to kill something happened to Palin something happened to Kevin and he probably died I took out the map and started studying it suddenly and I remember Karl told us about a camp about the gold mining camp 4 days away, liar in the River cooperative, so now I had an idea: I have to walk and look at the map, it was very difficult to solve it, but I thought that in 2, 3, 4 days at most I would reach the camp and once.

I arrived at the camp. I will have a path to follow and I will achieve it. You will see heads for the Milan camp at Curry Playa, from there you will take the trail to the town of San José and safety, aha. ok, I know it's him, late Hutton and him, I'm singing out loud, with my chest open, enjoying the scenery and fully trusting that I'll make it, then suddenly I discovered a tree and saw clearly that the link was actually severed with a machete, Kevin and then it all makes sense to me, actually Kevin was doing the same thing that was on you.

I would be trying to go to Quarry Playa, so I'm sure Kevin was there before me. I continued walking along that path and it started to get a little strange because the markings were not as clear as before deep in the bush. I had no sense of direction and now I was stuck with this little train hoping it would take me back to the river and the camp and then after hours to where I'm already desperate because you know it took me away from the river I see this foot broken is not an old footprint I see that footprint in the mud and I realize that this is a hiking boot and there is only one person in the world who would have left that footprint is Kevin this footprint was not Kevin's it was mine at all these hours after day that I walked In fact I went in a circle this trail left me nowhere after hours in the river Kevin's condition is critical he is barely conscious and has no idea if he has passed San José or not, suddenly I see A canoe, the current is swift, took me down the river pretty far and finally they turned their heads and started waving their arms like that.

I was eating down the river so I let go of the branch I had been holding on to and was swimming towards the shore when they came up to me they asked me two questions they asked me if I was lost and then they asked me if I was hungry it was kind of funny he said They went hunting in this area twice a year, I mean it's literally one in a million, it was pure luck, they had saved me, but I didn't know if she was

alive

, but I just had a feeling that Josi wouldn't give up.

Yosi continues forward towards the old mining camp without rice. It survives on little more than scraps of fruit collected from the jungle floor. I just made a rule. I'm not going to lose the river. Again, suddenly, there was an opening along the river and I saw the heat coming out. The disease in my feet hurt me so much, this fungus that my hands too and my hands were also raw and I felt that not only the pain that was so unbearable but I actually remembered how Marcos was on that and I remember that I didn't really believe him and I said I wouldn't win for a second.

I was thinking that maybe what happened to me was directly related to the way I behaved with him with my friend and now no God I suffer myself Yossi has no choice but to move on and hope that he can get to San José the rain was relentless it was so night came and it was very difficult to escape. What happened is quite incredible. I didn't know about that phenomenon, but literally the jungle began to collapse. It took me a few seconds to understand it, but when I understood it was too late, it was a flood and the river rose.

No-no-no in the morning. The flash flood has subsided but Yossi has been dragged away from the river when I was feeling bad the situation was the 15th of my loneliness I couldn't light the fire there was no sun to dry or food and the rain and wet, but things were clear, I just had to stand up and keep walking, but I knew that there is one thing now: finding the river a few days after being rescued. Kevin headed to a Bolivian army air base to try to convince them to use blankets. to search they went to the commander's office I talked to him and he told me if a gringo a traveler got lost in the jungle that you didn't have the chance to see outside your son brother good contortionist also news where your family is out of sight seas final person Lost unless that Elba I hear that noise and I listen to that noise because it is very strange and I start to realize that it is a plane that I saved and now I know everything.

I also know that Kevin is on the plane. I know he is a. plane behind me I know it's Kevin's ax and I'm just jumping on my feet and I'm running and screaming what are you doing mother, you know as soon as I noticed this plane I just didn't notice myself I just collapsed down La first time I was defeated, you know, I felt defeated, I knew there was so much hope and they didn't see me and there's no way they could see me flying just a few hundred feet high in a Bolivian army observation plane.

Kevin shares Yosi's sense. From the defeat I realized that we couldn't see much and I asked Lauren to fly, he didn't, he said it was too dangerous and besides we were flying in a straight line, it didn't follow the contour of the river. I didn't have a chance to find Yossi this way I was going crazy it was very very frustrating every day was very important time was the key element in each appointment that passed I know it was another day that Josi the possibilities were decreasing they were getting smaller and The youngest Yosi has already spent 17 days alone in the jungle since the floods.

He has found nothing but rotten fruit to imitate him. He has a fever and is weak from hunger. I was family. I was sick. I was hurt and weak. I began to realize that he was not I know, what's going on? Maybe I'm going crazy. I thought Yossi wouldn't give up so I started thinking about next steps and they found a guy named Chico and I asked him if he could take me there. problem he told me I could but he would be back in three days so it's better than nothing so I said well something bit me it was a bad bite and I can feel it's like a termite an ant and then another bytom and another body and then I attracted a nest of termites and like hundreds of them and then they all sounded and I couldn't escape there was no way to escape but the worst horror was the ray of light eating a red carpet you know and everything around me Me Five six meters around me everything was red and moving my body was like a sieve there was no place in my body that was not bleeding and I just had to escape now and I stood up and kept walking.

I told them but I want to go as high up the rivers as possible I just kept going up and up enough I didn't want to stop the jungle it's just the jungle on my knees on my elbows I'm crawling suddenly I started to see if they think I recognized it and In reality it was a Playa quarry. I returned to that deserted mining camp but the mining camp was no longer there. The flood took everything away. My feet were in no shape other than two lumps. Two pieces of blood and pus. I gave up. I prayed to God alone. let me die all I want is to rest let me die we can't go on Peter Lewis I can see another movement breaking out above us I knew it was all for you Co that It would take weeks if not a month to get back to the jungle and there's no way you can survive another month in the jungle and I just felt this heavy, heavy, heavy feeling and this sense of loss and this terrible feeling of guilt.

It had caused his

death

. I clearly heard a buzzing sound like a bee or a wasp and it's like I'm getting closer and I can start eating it circulating in my head so you know I'm already in the delirium zone. I'm just trying. to get rid of that wasp and they are so loud that noise at one point I think maybe it's trapped inside the mosquito nets and I lift my head and I'm just trying to get rid of that wasp and the ringing is in my ears and when I lift my head and say No, I don't see it, the wasps, but when I turn my head right there on the beach I see shadows and people, I mean, it's like at that moment, I'm not there and I don't know. what's happening just you know how to give like a meat he's already there and I'm collapsing in his arms and we just told each other and we all know just emotion we cried and cried and cried I couldn't believe it.

I would find that if I had been upriver just a few feet away, I wouldn't have heard Curtis, we wouldn't have seen him, I mean it's literally one of every man, my life was saved, I mean I know Kevin saved me. life but it was America sure it was America but you will have CC of my life because if we had not found him if he had perished in the jungle he would have had a very heavy burden to bear knowing that I caused his

death

when I put him in the situation and I was completely responsible, so I guess that's how I see it.

Yosi and Kevin were safe, but they still had to find out what had happened to Marcus and Carl, who they had let walk. Leaving the jungle 20 days before, it was a shock for us to discover that there was no trace of Marcus or the car, of course, when I realized that Markos was lost in the jungle, it was a very, very heavy feeling. Kevin returned to the jungle. He immediately went looking for them and he couldn't find anything, no sign or trace, he just evaporated. The Bolivian army, you see, mounted a search and discovered that the indigenous village Karl had marked on the map did not exist, they told him.

He told me that Carl told a story about taking people into the jungle and leaving them halfway more than once, they were very, very familiar with our land, they said he was a troublemaker and that he found refuge here in Bolivia and I was shocked for years to come. Both Kevin and ELC organized a search for Marcus, but no sign of him was ever found. I don't feel guilty for not taking Marcus with us back then and even now I feel like it was the right decision not to let him come, but I always thought about that moment. and I probably do it from time to time now that if I had gone back to Karla Marcos we would have gotten back together that would have been different it was a matter of life or death and we decided for anyone that he should go out yes we did I think both Kevin and I We were thinking that what we are doing is more dangerous if this is an excuse.

We were thinking that we still made the decision for him and he never came back. Kevin Gale is now a fitness instructor and photographer living in Israel. he is married to an Israeli landlord he met while searching for Marcus Erika Yossi Ginsberg is now a writer and motivational speaker and has done a lot to preserve the Amazon rainforest lives in New South Wales Australia you you