On Wednesday, officials carried the too weak to move
82 year old away from the treehouse he and his son had been living in, Thanh
Nien News reports. Ho and his son, Ho Van Lang, now 42, have spent the
intervening years hunting and subsisting on both wild plants and cassava roots
and corn and sugarcane grown on their own nearly 2.5-acre field.
The men wore loincloths made of bark, though the elder Ho
still had his military uniform pants folded neatly in the treehouse, which sat
about 16 feet off the ground, alongside a small red jacket his son once wore.
The younger Ho knows only a few words, and his father has
"fallen out of the habit of speech," the Telegraph reports.
Though Times Live reports they were found by villagers
who were searching for firewood and alerted authorities, their existence
apparently wasn't entirely unknown.
Ho's youngest son who was a newborn when Ho disappeared
found the two more than two decades ago, but couldn't persuade them to accept
him or rejoin society, despite annual gifts of salt and oil.
Amazingly, they're not the only family to live in
isolation for 40 years.
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