Yossi Ghinsberg: Jungle Survivor, Adventurer, Author, Master Storyteller & Environmental Advocate — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:13I have a habit of checking the time
3. 0:15before I start speaking but I have a
4. 0:18special clock it has two functions one
5. 0:21tells you the time and the other the
6. 0:24exact
7. 0:26location by the way this is the most
8. 0:29advanced techn ology the time that I get
9. 0:31is an atomic time that is the most
10. 0:33accurate time
11. 0:35possible because when I look at the time
12. 0:39my clock is telling me
13. 0:42now the time is now and when I took take
14. 0:46a look at the GPS it tells me the place
15. 0:50is here and in
16. 0:53essence in
17. 0:57nutshell that's what I've learned from
18. 0:59my experience
19. 1:00to be present at the
20. 1:04moment to engage in every moment with
21. 1:07intensity to live every
22. 1:11day as if it was the last day of my life
23. 1:15I was a kid maybe eight or nine years
24. 1:17old I I I I went to the market in Tel
25. 1:21Aviv with my father and on the way back
26. 1:24my father was carrying all the produce
27. 1:26so he had like a few baskets on one hand
28. 1:29and a big watermelon under the other arm
29. 1:32and we walking towards the car when a
30. 1:35tourist stopped us to get some
31. 1:37directions he was lost and my father was
32. 1:41quite confused didn't know what to do
33. 1:42finally he puts all the shopping bags on
34. 1:44the floor he ended over the watermelon
35. 1:46to me he looks at the tourist and said
36. 1:48look I really don't
37. 1:50know I got a couple of degrees my first
38. 1:52degrees is in Jewish philosophy and then
39. 1:54I did another degree in uh business
40. 1:56administration most people tell me
41. 1:59consistency
42. 2:00business administration Jewish
43. 2:02philosophy same
44. 2:04thing I left um Israel at the age of 21
45. 2:09on searching for my own adventure you
46. 2:13see my strong belief is that we go and
47. 2:18search for Adventures we climb
48. 2:22mountains we cross valleys and seas but
49. 2:25actually we searching for ourselves I
50. 2:28arrived in a beautiful beautiful place
51. 2:31one morning I was already a year with a
52. 2:34backpack on my
53. 2:35shoulders and I arrived in a very
54. 2:38precious place the border of Peru and
55. 2:40Bolivia in South America this border is
56. 2:44a lake that separates both countries I
57. 2:46was there early that
58. 2:49morning because the ferry after the
59. 2:51market
60. 2:52day returns all the peasants back to the
61. 2:55different islands in the lake so once a
62. 2:58week There's an opportunity to visit
63. 3:00these unique communities that live deep
64. 3:02inside the lake and I was there on the
65. 3:06docks and finally um I was led to the
66. 3:08ferry by a child I jump into the ferry
67. 3:11and I see it's full of people already uh
68. 3:14five six
69. 3:15Backpackers and about 15 20 um peasants
70. 3:20a minute or two later The Boat Leaves
71. 3:23the docks and here we making our way
72. 3:25into the Mist leaving the town behind
73. 3:29when sudden there's a scream from behind
74. 3:31Aspera wait and we turn around and we
75. 3:35see a Backpacker obviously his backpack
76. 3:37puding up and down his back and he's
77. 3:39running and he's screaming again Aspera
78. 3:44wait and I
79. 3:46feel we should go back for him this is
80. 3:49one of ours and I look at the motom
81. 3:52man and I see that nobody else is
82. 3:56concerned like the Backpackers don't
83. 3:58care and The Peasants they don't want to
84. 4:02go back for some
85. 4:04Gringo so I just withdraw myself and I
86. 4:07said okay uh I won't interfere
87. 4:11either and the guy one more time asara
88. 4:15desperately because that's the last
89. 4:17fairy and he missed it and I look at the
90. 4:20motor man this very
91. 4:22colorful and
92. 4:24Indian and he's looking back and forth
93. 4:27back and
94. 4:27forth and that moment this Crystal
95. 4:31because I can see exactly the work of
96. 4:34Destiny this man was hesitating if to go
97. 4:38back and forth his decision will
98. 4:41completely change the course of Our
99. 4:42Lives my life will be a different
100. 4:46life his life the guy waiting on the
101. 4:48docks will end he will
102. 4:56die what I tell you
103. 5:20[Music]
104. 5:28yes
105. 5:31we left civilization flew into the
106. 5:33Amazon for 4 days we were walking deep
107. 5:36into the Amazon and after 4 days um we
108. 5:40arrived to a small community as SAS this
109. 5:43was the last there's nothing past that
110. 5:45Community for 4 days we were walking
111. 5:48down a trail now there's no Trail and
112. 5:50when there's no
113. 5:52Trail how do you make the next pass do
114. 5:55you take the machete and cut the
115. 5:58vegetation there's no Trail the only
116. 6:01things that we could follow were little
117. 6:03tributaries Rivers creeks and because
118. 6:07the water source will guide us through
119. 6:09the forest but walking by the water is
120. 6:12the hardest cuz the closer to the water
121. 6:14the denser the vegetation so what we did
122. 6:16we jumped into the rivers into the creek
123. 6:18and we're trying to walk as much as we
124. 6:20could in the water completely wet our
125. 6:23stuff heavy starting developing blisters
126. 6:26and rushes it wasn't easy at all and we
127. 6:29walk like that for a day and nothing
128. 6:31nothing to eat and we're starving but we
129. 6:34have no food cuz Carl said it's very
130. 6:36silly to take food into the Amazon we
131. 6:38have rice we have beans and we have a
132. 6:40shotgun so we'll we we'll
133. 6:51hunt but on the river Everything Changes
134. 6:54Carl is like a shaped samung the only
135. 6:57one of us that doesn't know how to swim
136. 6:58is Carl so on the raft Kevin is taking
137. 7:02leadership but Carl is not about to give
138. 7:05leadership up so both of them are
139. 7:07fighting and screaming and Kevin is
140. 7:09giving instruction Carl is giving the
141. 7:11opposite instruction and we are split
142. 7:13Marcus follows car and I stayed by
143. 7:19Kevin the river became very narrow as we
144. 7:22enter the canyon the sheer Cliff started
145. 7:24building from both sides we started
146. 7:26shooting Rapids when we hear a terrible
147. 7:29noise noise and we see we see the huge
148. 7:32Rock and then came the the
149. 7:34he and before we know it we on the
150. 7:38boulder hanging on the raft climbing
151. 7:40back on the raft on the boulder the
152. 7:42other side is the waterfall we stand on
153. 7:44the waterfall with our raft trapped in
154. 7:46the middle we are hanging on the raft
155. 7:49jumping back on our feet looking down
156. 7:51and both of us are shattered that's the
157. 7:54waterfall I look at Kevin and I see that
158. 7:57Kevin is completely pale I know we are
159. 7:59in big trouble Kevin is looking down at
160. 8:01this vast amount of water we were really
161. 8:04desperate completely desperate in the
162. 8:06middle of this white water to be stuck
163. 8:08at night Kev said we we cannot do that
164. 8:11so here's what we're doing you hold the
165. 8:13machete he said you hold the masetta in
166. 8:15your hand I'm going to jump if I'm going
167. 8:18to make it to the right Bank you throw
168. 8:21the machete after me I'll climb up the
169. 8:23cliff cut some Vines make some rope come
170. 8:26down and take you out I was crying by
171. 8:29that stage cuz I knew he's going to die
172. 8:31and I was crying for him but I was
173. 8:32crying for me cuz I knew he's going to
174. 8:35die and he's going to leave me alone
175. 8:37here so I was holding the machetta
176. 8:39looking at him and then he gave that
177. 8:41huge jump he flies in the air he's taken
178. 8:44by the water I look and then I see him
179. 8:47pops he's popping straight to the right
180. 8:49Bank he's jumping out he's bleeding he's
181. 8:51holding his knees knee slashed he's
182. 8:53screaming the machete I throw the
183. 8:55machete in the air and then everything
184. 8:58moves screeching the the raft lost its
185. 9:01balance by jumping it pushed the raft
186. 9:04off the rock I'm falling into the the
187. 9:05waterfall I'm screaming Kevin don't
188. 9:07leave me he's screaming all done all
189. 9:10done all done to the logs I'm throwing
190. 9:12myself on the logs I all on to them and
191. 9:15I fall into the
192. 9:18waterfall and then I'm inside the guts
193. 9:21of this River tremendous pressure on my
194. 9:23chest Peach black I just close my eyes
195. 9:26I'm afraid to open my eyes I old and old
196. 9:28and old and I feel I'm bursting there's
197. 9:31no air I cannot take it anymore and then
198. 9:34suddenly the rough just pops out and as
199. 9:36it pops out I grasp her her it feels
200. 9:39like gold it's so precious and I look
201. 9:41back for a minute
202. 9:43second I see Kevin Kevin is there waving
203. 9:47the curve I don't see
204. 9:54Kevin