Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years

Into the woods: how one man survived alone in the wilderness for 27 years(theguardian.com)

16 points by tfm 9 years ago | 3 comments

This is an adapted excerpt from a recently published book. It's about Christopher Knight, who was a hermit in Maine between 1986 and 2013.

Spoiler alert: He survived by committing about 1,000 burglaries of the 100 cabins in the area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Thomas_Knight

tfm 9 years ago | |

The bit that really stood out for me: """ He was never once bored. He wasn’t sure, he said, that he even understood the concept of boredom. """

Almost seems (too? as a consequence?) that he was lacking a type of curiosity, whether as an existing character trait, or something that developed from having to periodically use all his wiles to obtain the means of survival when surveilling the cabins.

rurban 9 years ago |

I prefer the older 2014 GQ story about him: http://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

I also just finished watching this fascinating story about a 54-old man who decided to live alone in the Alaska woods, for more than 27 years, building his own cabin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNXFJ1AMHrM