Lost in the Rainforest | Into the Jungle | 1
Against The Odds
Wondery
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
It’s 1981 and 22-year-old Yossi Ghinsberg is wrapping up a backpacking trip through South America. In La Paz, Bolivia, he and two friends meet an older Austrian expat, who entices them to join him on a trek into an uncharted corner of the Amazon rainforest. Yossi and his companions set out looking for adventure, but quickly discover they are ill-equipped for the harsh jungle environment, and their guide may not be as capable as they thought.
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| 0:00.0 | A listener note, against the odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events. |
| 0:05.3 | Some elements, including dialogue, may be invented, but everything is based on research. clenches his teeth and tries to swing his leg over a fallen banyan tree blocking his path. |
| 0:26.6 | But it's no use. |
| 0:28.1 | He's so weakened by hunger he doesn't have the strength. |
| 0:32.3 | It's mid-December 1981, and Yossi has been wandering in the Bolivian jungle, |
| 0:37.6 | lost and alone for what feels like forever. |
| 0:41.6 | He leans against the tree and thinks for a minute. How long has it been since he saw another person? Two weeks? Three? |
| 0:50.0 | He looks down at his legs. Patches of red blotchy skin are visible through his torn jeans. |
| 0:57.0 | The rash he'd noticed a few days ago is spreading. |
| 1:00.0 | His swollen feet throb inside his hiking boots. |
| 1:04.0 | The last time he'd managed to pull them off, |
| 1:06.0 | his feet were unrecognizable, |
| 1:08.0 | just masses of bloody flesh, |
| 1:11.0 | rotting from the constant dampness of the rainforest. He hoists his |
| 1:16.1 | backpack and limps down the length of the tree trunk dragging himself along with |
| 1:21.0 | his walking stick. If he can't climb over the tree, he'll have to go around it. |
| 1:26.0 | After a few minutes, he's back on the path, if you can even call it that. |
| 1:31.0 | He's trying to return to the river. To a sandy beach he stumbled on a few days ago. |
| 1:37.0 | If he can get there where he's not obscured by the thick jungle canopy, then maybe, just maybe, a rescue plane might spot him. |
| 1:46.7 | He doesn't have much time. |
| 1:48.6 | He's so weak he's begun to hallucinate, seeing people who aren't there. This was supposed to be the |
| 1:55.2 | adventure of a lifetime, a chance to explore the jungle and encounter remote |
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