You might be interested in Percy Fawcett, the early 20th century explorer.

He was a very famous explorer, mostly for helping map parts of South America and the Amazon. I recently read the book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon and it goes over a lot of the stories and details of his life.

Some of the stuff sounds like it is straight out of a movie or book. Cutting your way through one of the last unknown, uncharted areas of the world, making contact with local tribes (many who had never seen white people and could be very hostile), reports of never-before-seen animals/bugs. It's said that his Amazon explorations were even the inspiration for Authur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

I doubt he ever found himself avoiding booby-traps in an ancient tomb but he is the closest to an Indiana Jones-type guy I've ever read about.