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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact (2013)

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Resurfaced independently across 7 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

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2014–2024
peak thread · 134 comments
226 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-01-11
25 pts

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VICE has made a documentary about Agafia who is still alive and is still living in the wilderness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68 It's quite amazing that some one at 72 who grew up malnourished and without access to modern medicine can still be in a good enough shape to survive in one of the harshest environments man has ever lived.

>Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion. This reminds me of a show I watched on the Science channel when I was young about how humans have evolved. They showed various African civilizations and detailed how they hunt in parties by simply keeping pace with the animal until the animal just collapses. It goes on to say that that is one characteristic of…

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Previous (very active) discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134023

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