Category: Nicaragua

The United States Agency for Global Media offers a hermit story on its Latin America pages. Headlined: “The hermit who sculpts stones from the moluntains of Nicaragua.” The hermit, Alberto Gutiérrez, is nearly eighty years of age, and lives alone in the southwest of the country on an isolated farm. He has sculpted more than a thousand stone pieces scatttered about his grounds.

URL: https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/en-fotos-el-ermitano-que-esculpe-las-piedras-de-las-montanas-de-nicaragua/6486163.html

Alberto Gutierrez, who is nearly 80, lives in rural Nicaragua in a one-room hut without running water or electricity. But his hermit life is today well-known because of the rock carvings he has sculpted throughout the vicinity of his original farm for some thirty years. Gutierrez began his practice of rock-carving as a hobby, but his themes and skills remain those of a sociable but discreet hermit. Many travel blogs and video sites describe Gutierrez as a curiosity and a tourism attraction, and while he seems to welcome the attention, little is really known about him.

representative URLs:http://www.theplaidzebra.com/meet-alberto-the-stone-carving-hermit-of-nicaragua-who-lives-entirely-off-of-the-land/; http://expertvagabond.com/alberto-the-hermit/; http://jackandjilltravel.com/alberto-gutierrez-sculptor-nicaragua/