[IncPen]

This article on the same story is from 2016
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/reallife-tarzan-ho-van-lang-spent-40-years-living-in-the-jungle-in-isolation/news-story/72b671c857d59eecf2ab6e1eb00c80ca

[fso301]

This article on the same story is from 2016

Thanks.

From the article:

Ho Van Lang, 44, spent 40 years living like a “slave” in isolation in the jungle.

-snip-

fled civilisation during the Vietnam War in 1972.

Without a mother, or wet nurse, I don't see how an infant could survive the most primitive of all survival scenarios. It seems more likely that he was 2-4 years old at the time he and his father fled, then lived another 40 years in the jungle which would mean he emerged from the jungle in 1972+40 = 2012 as a 42-44 year old man which would make him 46-48 years old at the time of the article and 51-53 years old today.