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Real-life Tarzan: Ho Van Lang Spent 40 Years Living In The Jungle In Isolation by DANO1011(m): 6:42am On Oct 06, 2016 |
DRESSED in tree bark and leaves while munching on a rat caught by a complicated jungle trap, this guy looks a little different than Alexander Skarsgård, the Swedish actor who is stealing hearts in the new Tarzan movie. But this “real life Tarzan” is credited with skills that are “superhuman”. Building tree houses, fashioning tools out of discarded war bombs and catching a bat quicker than you can Google, Ho Van Lang, 44, spent 40 years living like a “slave” in isolation in the jungle. And now, Lang has been forced to re-enter civilisation despite his love affair with the wilderness. Lang spent much of his life in the deepest jungles of Vietnam, in the Tay Tra district of Quang Ngai province, after his father, Ho Van Thanh, 85, fled civilisation during the Vietnam War in 1972. Lang’s father, an army veteran, decided to flee with his two sons after a US bomb killed his wife and two of their children. They built wood houses and sourced water from rivers, using a variety of jungle delicacies for dinner, including fruit, honey and a host of meats in the form of monkey, snake, lizard and frog. Along with his brother, Lang spent his life eating and living off the jungle for four decades until 2013, when locals found the family, alerted authorities and forced them to re-enter civilisation. According to Alvaro Cerezo, who tracked Lang and his family down in November 2015, Lang’s father suffers from a “profound phobia of returning [to civilisation] as he did not believe that the Vietnam War was over”. “They always escaped when they saw people from a distance.” Read more and watch the documentary videos here: http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/reallife-tarzan-ho-van-lang-spent-40-years-living-in-the-jungle-in-isolation/news-story/72b671c857d59eecf2ab6e1eb00c80ca 1 Like
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Re: Real-life Tarzan: Ho Van Lang Spent 40 Years Living In The Jungle In Isolation by Taich(m): 6:58am On Oct 06, 2016 |
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Re: Real-life Tarzan: Ho Van Lang Spent 40 Years Living In The Jungle In Isolation by Flygeriansteve: 12:35am On Oct 07, 2016 |
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Re: Real-life Tarzan: Ho Van Lang Spent 40 Years Living In The Jungle In Isolation by Taich(m): 7:56am On Oct 07, 2016 |
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Re: Real-life Tarzan: Ho Van Lang Spent 40 Years Living In The Jungle In Isolation by Flygeriansteve: 2:58pm On Oct 07, 2016 |
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