Yossi Ghinsberg
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Yossi Ghinsberg speaking in 2016.
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| Born |
Yosseph Ghinsberg 25 April 1959 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Residence | Byron Bay |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker |
| Partner(s) | Belinda Ghinsberg (March 7, 2010–present) |
| Children | 4 |
| Website | ghinsberg |
Yossi Ghinsberg is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker based in Australia. Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story when he was stranded in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981. Ghinsberg is a tech-entrepreneur and is the founder of Headbox, a mobile application designed to integrate all social media activity into one feed, and Blinq, a mobile application that provides social media and activity live updates.
Ghinsberg’s survival story will be enacted in the upcoming 2017 psychological thriller Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg. Ghinsberg's story was also featured in the documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive on Discovery Channel.
In 1981, after completing his service in the Israeli Navy, Ghinsberg, inspired by the book Papillon by Henri Charrière, which detailed the author's own experiences as an escape convict, became determined to find Charrière and ask for his blessing for Ghinsberg to follow in his journey. Ghinsberg had briefly returned from his trip from Africa to Mexico and longed for the rainforest immersion experience. Ghinsberg worked several jobs to save money in order to travel to South America and dreamed of inhabiting the uninhabited heart of the Amazon jungle. Ghinsberg was finally able to travel to South America, but by which time Charrière had already passed away, and the tribes Ghinsberg was interested in discovering were already civilized. He hitchhiked from Venezuela to Colombia, where he met Marcus Stamm, a teacher from Switzerland, in the midst of his expeditions, and the pair became good friends and traveled together to La Paz. When Ghinsberg was in La Paz, Bolivia, he met Karl Ruprechter, a mysterious Austrian who claimed to be a geologist. Ruprechter told Ghinsberg that he was planning an expedition into the uncharted Amazon in Bolivia in search of gold in a remote, indigenous Tacana village. Ghinsberg, who sought out the opportunity to explore the unexplored areas of the Amazon, immediately joined Ruprechter in his journey, along with two of Ghinsberg's new acquaintances, Marcus Stamm, and Kevin Gale, an American photographer. The four of them, never having prior contact with each other before, delved into a Bolivian adventure for gold.
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