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Yossi Ghinsberg

Adventurer, author and speaker

  • Fame52.7
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia17.1K
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  • Age
    67
    Born 1959
  • Known for
    Jungle
    2017
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Updated 2026-07-19

Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981. Ghinsberg's survival story was enacted in the 2017 psychological thriller Jungle, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg where he was separated from his mochileros friends. Ghinsberg's story was also featured in the documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive on Discovery Channel.

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Source confidence70.0
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