Surviving in the Jungle

Not long ago, this story, based on real events, shocked the entire world and made even the toughest souls shudder.

May 2023. A Cessna plane crashes in the Colombian Amazon jungle. On board are four children from the Uitoto tribe, their mother, and two adults. The wreckage and bodies of the deceased are found two weeks later, but the children are not among them. For forty days, a brother and three sisters will wander through the hostile jungle. Matt Yuky, who has lived in Colombia for many years, reconstructs the full picture of this story - from the initial threats that forced the family to flee their native village to the dramatic rescue and subsequent fight for custody. He tells not only about how the children fed on palm fruits and caught fish with sharpened sticks but also about what remained behind the scenes of the news reports: the pressure from armed groups, the indifference of the state, and the fading of ancient culture. This is not just a survival story. It is an investigation into how cruelty and hope, modern technology and shamanic rituals, courage and mystical power are intertwined, proving that real life is more incredible than Hollywood scripts written for blockbuster movies. And the main question: what actually helped the children survive for forty days in the green hell?