Ho Van Lang succumbed to the terminal illness last Monday after surviving 41 years in the jungle with his father. The pair reportedly thought the Vietnam War was still raging on until they were brought back to civilisation in 2013 when Lang’s father Ho Van Thanh became sick ‘He had spent all his life living in the jungle and then came to live in the “civilised world” where he started eating processed foods and sometimes even drinking alcohol.’ I was always concerned that he and his body wouldn’t be able to handle such a drastic change. ‘But I didn’t like seeing him living in civilisation. ‘He was a beautiful human being, to forget him will be impossible, I will miss him everyday. Lang had lived a remarkable life and made headlines across the globe – but his friend Alvaro Cerezo, an explorer who returned to the jungle with Lang to live there for a week together, believes discovering ‘modern life’ probably had fatal consequences for the real life Tarzan.Ĭerezo said: ‘I’m so sad to see him go, but for me his passing is also a liberation because I know he was suffering in the last months. Lang’s older brother Ho Van Tri encouraged the pair to return to civilisation, with the help of the authorities, when Thanh’s health began to deteriorate in 2013.
The pair returned civilisation in 2013 after father Ho Van Thanh’s health deteriorated (pictured getting checked by a doctor)įamily: Ho Van Lang, left, and Ho Van Thanh, right, moved to the jungle when their relatives were killed by a mine during the Vietnam War The ‘real-life Tarzan’ Ho Van Lang, who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for 40 years has died of liver cancer aged 52 – eight years after he returned to the ‘civilised world’įound: Ho Van Lang, 52, was found in 2013 after living in the jungle of Vietnam since he was two years old The father-son duo lived for decades in the forest of what is now known as the Tra Bong District before they were found by locals looking for firewood. Thanh, then a soldier, fled with his infant son to the jungle during the war after he lost his wife and two other children in bombing. The pair reportedly thought the Vietnam War was still raging on until they were brought back to civilisation in 2013 when Lang’s father Ho Van Thanh became sick. Ho Van Lang succumbed to the terminal illness last Monday after surviving 41 years in the jungle with his father. The ‘real-life Tarzan’ who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for 40 years has died of liver cancer aged 52 – eight years after he returned to the ‘civilised world’. They were brought back to civilisation in 2013 when Thanh’s health deteriorated.Lang and his father Ho Van Thanh fled to the jungle during the US-Vietnam War.‘Real-life Tarzan’ Ho Van Lang has died of liver cancer after 40 years in the jungle.‘Real-life Tarzan’ who lived in the Vietnamese jungle for 40 years dies of cancer aged 52 – eight years after being brought into the ‘civilised world’
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