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.
Agafya Lykova was born in the wilderness after her family fled civilization in 1936, The Guardian reported. On Wednesday she called for help using an emergency satellite phone and said she had pain in her leg, according to a releasefrom the Kemerovo regional government.
She found her physical movements dangerously restricted from the pain, amid winter temperatures that can dip to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
A helicopter flew her to Tashtagol hospital, about 600 miles north of Kazakhstan and the Mongolian border. The region's governor, Aman Tuleyev has long provided aid to the hermit, whose last family member died in 1988.
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