A 70-year-old hermit who has spent her entire life in the Siberian wilderness has been introduced to the 21st century after being airlifted to a hospital for leg pain.
She found her physical movements dangerously restricted from the pain, amid winter temperatures that can dip to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Agafia Lykova is the last remaining member of a deeply religious family that fled civilization in 1936 and did not know about World War 2 until geologists stumbled upon them in 1978.
With her father’s death in 1988, she became her family's sole survivor. Then last May, her one friend, neighbor and fellow hermit, 77-year-old geologist Yerofei Sedov, died, leaving her entirely alone.
She found her physical movements dangerously restricted from the pain, amid winter temperatures that can dip to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
Agafia Lykova is the last remaining member of a deeply religious family that fled civilization in 1936 and did not know about World War 2 until geologists stumbled upon them in 1978.
With her father’s death in 1988, she became her family's sole survivor. Then last May, her one friend, neighbor and fellow hermit, 77-year-old geologist Yerofei Sedov, died, leaving her entirely alone.