09/13/2021 11:26 AM
Clarín.com
International
Updated 9/13/2021 1:04 PM
The "real-life Tarzan" who
lived in the Vietnamese jungle for 40 years
died of liver cancer at age 52, eight years after returning to the "civilized world."
Ho Van Lang succumbed to the disease last Monday after surviving 41 years in the jungle with his father, who fled to the desert in 1972 when a US bombardment during the Vietnam War killed half his family.
The couple reestablished contact with Vietnamese society in 2013 and
believed that the Vietnam War was still raging
when they entered a village and sought medical help for Lang's father, Ho Van Thanh.
Ho Van Lang, 52, was found in 2013 after living in the jungle of Vietnam since he was two years old.
Lang's friend Álvaro Cerezo said that living a "modern" life probably had fatal consequences for him after he
started eating processed foods and sometimes drinking alcohol.
A movie story
The story of Ho Van Lang, better known as the "real life Tarzan", began more than 40 years ago when his father Ho Van Thanh, a soldier in the Vietnamese army, took refuge in the jungle.
Ho Van Lang, 52, lived for four decades in the jungle of Vietnam.
Ho Van Thanh had lost his wife and two children in a bombing and took his son Ho Van Lang and moved to the jungle to live there and flee the war.
For more than four decades, father and son lived in the jungle until the father fell ill in 2013, at which point they returned to civilization.
They both thought that the Vietman war was still being fought.
During the 40 years in the jungle, father and son survived by gathering fruits and cassava from the forest and planting corn.
They wore loincloths made of tree bark and lived in a wooden hut raised five meters above the ground.
The 'real-life Tarzan' Ho Van Lang, who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for 40 years, died of liver cancer at age 52, eight years after returning to the 'civilized world'.
In 2013, pickers discovered the two 'jungle men' acting abnormally from a distance, and alerted local authorities.
It was then that they created a team to try to find him.
After more than five hours of searching, they
found them in August 2013.
The father could speak a little of the Cor minority language, but the son knew only a few words.
Alcohol and food
The British newspaper Daily Mail collects the testimony of Álvaro Cerezo, an explorer who returned to the jungle with Lang to live there for a week together.
The friend of the "real life Tarzan" believes that
"civilized life" had fatal consequences for Ho Van Lang's life.
"I am very sad to see him go, but for me his death is also a liberation because I know that he has been suffering in recent months," he said.
He continued: "But I didn't like seeing him living in civilization. I was always worried that he and his body couldn't handle such a drastic change."
Cherry believes that Ho Van Lang's health was affected by civilized life: "He had spent his entire life living in the jungle and then came to live in the civilized world where he began to eat processed food and sometimes even drink. alcohol".
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