Critics Viv Groskop and Hanna Flint review The Hermit of Treig, a documetary film made by Lizzie Mackenzie who follows Ken Smith, a man who has spent the past four decades living in a log cabin ...

A Scottish mountain man known locally as the “Hermit of Loch Treig” is lucky to be alive after his distress beacon was picked up in Texas after he fell ill in a remote forest area in the Highlands.

High above the west side of Loch Treig (one of those lochs with a railway line but no road beside it) is a six-mile long ridge that extends from Creaguaineach Lodge in the south to Fersit in the north ...

A meticulous diarist and avid photographer, Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands, living alone in a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as ‘the lonely loch’. He has ...

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. "It's a ...

AN OAP who has spent 40 years living as a hermit says he wouldn’t have it any other way. Ken Smith lives alone in a handmade log cabin on the banks of a remote loch with no gas, electricity or running ...

Gentlemen of the road, we used to call them — too cultured to be mere vagrants, they'd tramp around the districts doing odd jobs and sharpening knives. Ken Smith is the last of the breed. He ceased ...

UK director Lizzie MacKenzie won the audience award at Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) for her documentary The Hermit Of Treig, as unveiled as part of the festival’s closing night (March 13). The film ...

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