This 19-year-old Norwegian student, has been living in a cave at the foot of a mountain since last May, sleeping on a bed of straw and sheepskin and collecting rainwater to wash with and drink. Sitting on a rock surveying a landscape bathed in sunshine, Ms Loken does not look like she misses the daily demands of Twitter, Instagram and shopping malls.
“It does something completely different to you than waking up in a bed, when you don’t want to get up and go to school,” she says in a video made by the local newspaper Firda. “But waking up for a climb through the scree is quite fun – you get a completely different hiking experience and respect for nature, and experience different birdsongs around you.”
Ms Loken was inspired to change her lifestyle by a boyfriend who had previously occupied her cave. She concedes that living outside by choice is “pretty weird in the society we live in now”, but was still shocked by the most common question people ask when they find out about her unusual abode: “Most people just wonder how I charge my phone – I think that is excellent proof of the society we live in and how incredibly dependent we are on the luxuries around us.”
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wild-at-heart-norwegian-gives-up-home-comforts-for-a-cave-9270094.html
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