Ken Smith lives without electricity or running water in a hand-made log cabin on the banks of a remote loch in Scotland. (via BBC)
For almost 40 years Ken Smith has shunned conventional life and lived without electricity or running water in a hand-made log cabin on the banks of a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands.Not everyone would agree that Ken's isolated, reclusive lifestyle of foraging and fishing as well as collecting firewood and washing his clothes in an old bath outdoors is the ideal. And even less so at the age of 74."It's known as the lonely loch," he says.
Filmmaker Lizzie McKenzie first made contact with Ken nine years ago and over the past two years she has filmed him for theKen, who is originally from Derbyshire, tells the programme how he began work at the age of 15, building fire stations.He suffered a brain haemorrhage and lost consciousness for 23 days."They said I would never recover. They said I would never speak again," he says."That's when I decided I would never live on anyone's terms but my own," he says.
"If you want to learn how to live an independent life what you have to do is learn how to fish," he says. It notified the coastguard in the UK and Ken was airlifted to hospital in Fort William where he spent seven weeks recovering.
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