Deadly Amazon river BOILS it's victims alive: 'The eyes cook first and turn milky'

A river which boils its victims alive has been discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest. The bubbling four-mile long Mayantuyacu river is so pipping hot that it kills any living thing that enters it.
The river has been the story of legends in Peru. And rumour has it that this is where the Spanish conquistadors killed the last Inca emperor and after the murder, headed into the Amazon rainforest in search of gold.
But geoscientist Andrés Ruzo's didn't believe stories about the deadly waterway until he saw it with his own eyes.

    BOILING: Don't fall in this deadly river 


He believed that it would require a huge amount of geothermal heat to boil even a small river, and the Amazon basin is far from any active volcanoes.
"I began asking that question. Could the boiling river exist?," Andrés said in Ted Talk. "I asked colleagues from universities, the government, oil, gas and mining companies, and the answer was a unanimous no."

    DANGER: Animals that fall into the water are boiled alive


 But after hiking into the Amazon, Runzo discovered a the "boiling river" in the sacred geothermal healing site of the Asháninka people in Mayantuyacu.
And once he'd seen the scorching temperatures and bursting bubbles with his own eyes he couldn't deny it any more.
In fact the 82ft wide and 20ft deep river is so hot that any animal (or person) that falls in will be boiled alive instantly.

  Andrés said: "I've seen all sorts of animals fall in, and what's shocking to me, is the process is pretty much the same.
"So they fall in and the first thing to go are the eyes. Eyes, apparently, cook very quickly. They turn this milky-white colour. The stream is carrying them.
"They're trying to swim out, but their meat is cooking on the bone because it's so hot. So they're losing power, losing power, until finally they get to a point where hot water goes into their mouths and they cook from the inside out."

    MYSTICAL: The river in Peru is the topic of many legends

    DISCOVERY: Geoscientist Andrés Ruzo's is trying to protect the river and surrounding forests

 The river boils because of fault-fed hot springs and it's just as dangerous for humans.

“Dipping my hand into the river would give me third-degree burns in less than half a second. Falling in could easily kill me," said Andrés.
Andrés has published a book The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon and is trying to save the river and the surrounding forest which is being destroyed by logging practice.

  

 

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