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For those interested in this story, you may also like the documentary "Alone In The Wilderness" by PBS. It's a great story of a man that lived alone for 30 years in the Alaskan wilderness. https://shop.pbs.org/alone-in-the-wilderness-dvd/product/ALW...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
He also wrote books. The first One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey isn't bad either.
For those interested in this story, you may also like the documentary "Alone In The Wilderness" by PBS. It's a great story of a man that lived alone for 30 years in the Alaskan wilderness. https://shop.pbs.org/alone-in-the-wilderness-dvd/product/ALW...
For those interested in this story, you may also like the documentary "Alone In The Wilderness" by PBS. It's a great story of a man that lived alone for 30 years in the Alaskan wilderness. https://shop.pbs.org/alone-in-the-wilderness-dvd/product/ALW...
I love this documentary, I watch it at least twice a year.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1874815/
It's about a guy that walked the entire length of the Amazon river. Took 2 1/2 years.
He appears to interact with tourists, so although the island doesn't have any other permanent inhabitants he does interact with other people, so not alone for 28 years.
He appears to interact with tourists, so although the island doesn't have any other permanent inhabitants he does interact with other people, so not alone for 28 years.
And he has wifi.
Wifi is a recent thing he has acquired, not something he has had for 28 years. I doubt the 78 year old man browses reddit and hackernews. Probably more of a weather tool.
I find these stories about people like this exhilarating. I think we all yearn to do this, and yet few of us do.
It was fascinating reading, describing how the wild pigs on the island would eat his freshly planted vegetable garden and how he hid up a tree at night until they showed up before leaping down to kill one of them. Also the regret he felt after killing the animal.
At one point he pulled a muscle in his back and just by chance someone landed on the island a day later and helped nurse him back to health.
I've Googled for it now and again but never been able to find the original side (I read the story around 2008).
Japan’s Naked Island Hermit: VICE INTL (2014) https://youtu.be/ZBtBePnUOZU
The thing is there are varying degrees of hermitage and a true hermit obviously doesn’t give interviews. ;)
I find these stories about people like this exhilarating. I think we all yearn to do this, and yet few of us do.
I read another diary online from a man who lived alone on one of the pacific islands. I want to to say that it was in the 1970s but I can't be sure. I think he was originally a New Zealander. It was fascinating reading, describing how the wild pigs on the island would eat his freshly planted vegetable garden and how he hid up a tree at night until they showed up before leaping down to kill one of them. Also the regre…