

Apart from this, their mannerisms were also quite different compared to the forest. He said that Lange had begun eating prepared foods and also consuming alcohol. According to the media report, Elvaro told that his death has definitely happened due to the change after coming to the human world. Elvaro Cerezo of that company met Lang after coming between humans. Lang was living a very healthy life in the wild, but just eight years after being among humans, Lang was diagnosed with liver cancer and died.Ī company called Do Castaway, which teaches people the tricks of living in the jungles. After this, only eight years after coming to human civilization, Lang also said goodbye to the world. But unfortunately, Lang’s father could not adjust to human civilization at first and his condition worsened. But in the year 2013, people came to know about both of them and both were brought among humans. He had no idea about human civilization, dress, food and drink. Lang had never seen any other human being in his life. Since then the father and son started living in the forests. His wife and two other children were killed in a bomb blast. Her father, Ho Van Thanh, was a Vietnamese soldier who had come to hide in the jungles during the Vietnam War to save the life of his young child. Ho Van Lang lived with his father in the jungles of Vietnam. His father moved to the woods in 1972, when half of his family was killed in American bombings during the Vietnam War. Ho van Lang succumbed to the disease last Monday after surviving 41 years in the woods with his father. The reason for his death is also very painful. You will be surprised to know that there was actually a ‘Tarzan’ in this world, which people came to know about eight years ago.Īfter living in the jungles for 41 years, he was brought into human civilization, but the sad thing is that the ‘real Tarzan’ died in just eight years among humans. You must have heard stories of ‘Tarzan’ or ‘Mowgli’ or seen movies, but can you imagine being Tarzan in real life. He said Lang started "eating processed foods and sometimes even drinking alcohol," according to First Post.Real Life Tarzan: Stayed healthy for 41 years in the jungles, died in eight years among humans, know this unique case story He died on Monday, with his family by his side.Ĭerezo said that he believed Lang's death was hastened due to poor diet and the stresses of modern society. In November last year, the 52-year-old was diagnosed with untreatable liver cancer. In his final years of life, Lang decided to stay in his home village and lived next door to his brother, working on a farm and forming a close bond with his nieces and nephews. He was also unaware that women existed, Cerezo said.


Lang, who was two years old when his father fled to the jungle, only knew a few words of the local Cor language. When father and son did emerge from the jungle eight years ago, they were wearing loincloths made of tree bark and had made little human contact. They spent 41 years farming corn, surviving off plants and wild animals, and living in a timber hut five meters off the ground.Īccording to a friend, explorer Alvaro Cerezo, Than had a profound phobia of leaving the jungle "as he did not believe the Vietnam War was over," First Post reported. Lang and Than first retreated to the jungle in 1972 after a US bomb killed half their family during the Vietnam War. The duo was persuaded to return to their village after Than's health deteriorated.

Ho Van Lang returned to civilization in 2013 after he spent his entire life in the dense Vietnamese jungle with his father, Ho Van Than. A real-life 'Tarzan' who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. He returned to civilization eight years ago and was diagnosed with liver cancer last year. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Ī real-life "Tarzan" who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for four decades has died of liver cancer at the age of 52, The Times reported. Ho Van Lang first fled to the jungle in 1972 with his father after half of his family died in the Vietnam War. Ho Van Lang first fled to the jungle in 1972 with his father after half of his family died in the Vietnam War. AFP/AFP via Getty ImagesĪ Vietnamese man who lived in the jungle for four decades has died of cancer at the age of 52. Ho Van Lang being accompagnied back to his home village in Tay Tra district, central province of Quang Nga, Vietnam on August 7, 2013.
