The rush is on to get a Kiwi conservationist stabbed in Brazil on the next plane home.
Earthrace Conservation captain Pete Bethune is at risk of infection after being stabbed in the chest with a rusty knife during a random robbery in the port city of Santander.
Earthrace spokeswoman Larisa Kellett told Newshub Bethune is holed up in a hotel room, too scared to leave.
"Most people I don't think would have survived that attack, but Pete is extremely fit, and to have been able to fight off both guys is extremely lucky."
Bethune was approached by two attackers while trying to rent a boat in Brazil and stabbed with a large knife.
According to doctors, Mr Bethune is lucky to be alive after the knife got caught between two ribs and narrowly missed his lungs.
Ms Kellett says the first step is to get him out of Brazil, and bring him straight home to be looked at in a local hospital.
Bethune and the Earthrace team have been in the Amazon for several months, but he wasn't in Brazil to do conservation work - instead visiting to honour Sir Peter Blake.
He was stabbed in the same town where Sir Peter Blake was murdered in 2001.
"He really admired him and wanted to go back all these years later to that same location and maybe get to talk to villagers, try and get his head around it."
Ms Kellett says the attack is a reality check for other activists.
"These campaigns are getting tougher and it would be nice if conservation work was all smiling dolphins and beautiful locations, but it's not."
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