Lord Greystoke is killed by an enormous ape that comes to investigate the strange house in the trees. Unfortunately, she dies and leaves Lord Greystoke to take care of the baby on his own. Lord Greystoke builds a kind of shelter high up in the trees - a treehouse - for his pregnant wife and does his best to make them comfortable in their new jungle home. Lord and Lady Greystoke are the only survivors of the shipwreck. The passengers on the ship include a certain Lord and Lady Greystoke from England. This story involves a shipwreck on the West coast of Africa. He said Lang started 'eating processed foods and sometimes even drinking alcohol,' according to First Post.Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a very famous story called Tarzan of the Apes. 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. 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. He returned to civilization eight years ago and was diagnosed with liver cancer last year. 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.

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