The last member of a remote tribe that had no outside contact has died, but who was the 'loneliest man in the world'? The man, whose name and age are not known, and never will be, was found dead, covered in macaw feathers in the Tanaru indigenous lands of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil's Rondonia state.
The hermit, who repeatedly shunned contact with outsiders, was nicknamed 'Man of the Hole' by indigenous activists, due to his hunting technique which involved digging deep holes. But his other nickname might be more accurate, as for the last 26 years of his life he lived completely alone - after his friends and family were poisoned in what's now being called a 'secret genocide'.
