In 1983, Benedict Allen is stranded in the Amazon rainforest for 28 days and faces dehydration, starvation, and malaria after his canoe is destroyed during an escape from renegade gold miners, who he overheard plotting to kill him. Near the end of his ordeal, Benedict is forced to kill and eat his dog Cashew with a machete to survive, having walked 65 miles through the Amazon to civilisation.
Survivor: Benedict Allen.
Deceased: Allen's dog Cashew
Show: I Shouldn`t Be Alive
Air Date:24 November 2010
Channel: Animal Planet
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