Bolivian man says it helped that he knew survival techniques after becoming separated from friends on hunting trip in January
Acosta told Unitel it rained half the time he was lost. He used his rubber boots to collect whatever rainwater he could. But when the skies dried up, he had to drink his urine.Disoriented, Acosta said he had walked about 40km in search of civilisation but soon discovered he was going around in circles. He was said to have lost 17kg and dislocated his ankle during his ordeal.
Exposed to the elements at night, he said he was bitten by all sorts of different creatures. His sister, Miladde Acosta, told Unitel TV that her brother “had to fight with a pig, which is a wild and dangerous animal”, and a tiger lurked nearby, CBS reported.In another well-known case in Bolivia, Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg survived three weeks in the Amazon in 1981, a feat that inspired a
In Brazil, pilot Antonio Sena survived 38 days in the Amazon after crash-landing in 2021. The following year, two brothers aged seven and nine were rescued after spending 25 days lost in the Brazilian part of the rainforest.
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