10 Mind-Blowing Feats Performed By Gurkhas
8. Naik Nakam Gurung's Seven Year Jungle Isolation
After a number of skirmishes with the enemy, his battalion was eventually caught in an ambush. Ever the valiant fighters, the Gurkhas battled on, but eventually ended up getting scattered by the attack.
Naik Nakam Gurung and a few others managed to fight their way out and made a plan to march to Singapore. After 25 days of journeying they reached the Jementah area, with Gurung making the decision to stay behind as he had contracted malaria and did not want to hold his comrades back.
With three months rations to get by on, he somehow managed to recover from the ailment but was unable to relocate the rest of his unit.
Instead he built a small shelter and set about cultivating the land, determined to wait out the war or rejoin with any passing troops that should happen upon him.
It wasn't until October of 1949 that the patrol of 1/10 GR discovered him, still living off the land he had cultivated and any animals he could trap. During the entire time he had never left the jungle and continued to believe that the war was ongoing.