Monday, August 1, 2016

79-year-old Pedro Luca has been living in a cave in north Argentina for 40 years


Pedro Luca is 79-years old and has been living in a cave in northern Argentina for the last 40 years. He has adjusted to a world of no running water or electricity and his cavern is located high in a mountain in northern Tucuman province. When hungry, he picks up his rifle and goes hunting or heads on a three-hour trek down the mountain to the nearest settlement of San Pedro de Colalao. A nearby creek is his main source of water - it has the purest, richest water possible.
This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 31 July 2016.
For company he has eleven roosters and two goats that roam the mountainside during the day and return to the cave at night looking for shelter from pumas and other predators. The crows of the roosters wake him up at around 3 a.m. every morning and he starts his day by lighting a fire.
Luca is a sort of legend in San Pedro de Colalao, and the locals often give him food and supplies. He buys candles, yeast and corn with a government old-age pension which is worth about $100-$200. He collects it from the town's post office. His only technological gadget is a small, battery-powered radio. However, he has difficulties to tune it because the signal is weak up the mountain.
He walks three hours every day, climbing the steep mountainside to reach his cave. His skin is weather-beaten and he still has few teeth left and gets an occasional visitor in the form of tourists and schoolchildren.

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