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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 nice life," says Ken. "Everybody wishes they could do it but nobody ever does." Not everyone would agree that Ken's isolated, reclusive lifestyle of foraging and fishing as well as collecting firewood and washing his clothes in an old bath outdoors is the ideal. And even less so at the age of 74. His log cabin is a two-hour walk from the nearest road on the edge of Rannoch Moor, by Loch Treig. "It's known as the lonely loch," he says. "There's no road here but they used to live here before they built the dam." Looking down on the loch from hillside, he says: "All their ruins are down there. The score now is one and that's me." Filmmaker Lizzie McKenzie first made contact with Ken nine years ago and over the past two years s...