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. There, Ghinsberg met Karl Ruprechter, a mysterious Austrian who claimed to be a geologist. Ghinsberg 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, Bolivia. ![]() By the time Ghinsberg was finally able to travel to South America, Charrière had passed away, and the tribes Ghinsberg was interested in discovering had been "civilized". He worked several jobs to save the money to travel to South America and dreamed of exploring the uninhabited heart of the Amazon jungle. Ghinsberg had briefly returned from an Africa to Mexico trip and longed for the rainforest immersion experience. After completing his service in the Israeli navy, Ghinsberg, inspired by the book Papillon by Henri Charrière, which detailed that author's experiences as an escaped convict, became determined to find Charrière and ask for his blessing to follow in his footsteps.
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