In a remote region of Ethiopia lives a woman who claims she hasn’t eaten or drunk anything in more than 16 years.
Muluwork Ambaw says she suddenly stopped needing to eat or drink when she was a ten-year-old girl, and clearly remembers the last thing she ate – a red lentil stew.
Adventurer Drew Binsky travelled to Ethiopia to meet with Muluwork and ask her one simple question: “Is it true?”
He finally found her village and noticed straight away that her house is far larger and more secure than all of her neighbours’, situated in a high-walled compound.
“Stepping into Muluwork’s living room is like entering another world,” Drew says. “There are posters on the walls and a variety of antiques that make it feel like we’re stuck in a time capsule of her childhood.”
Despite the size and sophistication of her house, the toilet is a simple hole in the ground. Muluwork says she never uses it, but her daughter and her sister do. Muluwork spends much of her free time gardening and grows plenty of vegetables in case she has visitors.
