Hunza Longevity - Valley People with High Life Expectancy

In complete contrast to that of the westerners, the life expectancy of the average Hunzakuts is 100 years. The life expectancy of the average westerner is about 70 years. 

These people reach both physical and intellectual maturity at the venerable age of one hundred!

This fact emphasizes the relative nature of what we refer to as normal. The way we are conditioned to perceive aging has a determining effect on the way we develop. At 100 years old, a Hunzakut is considered neither old nor even elderly. Even more extraordinary is the fact that Hunzas remain surprisingly youthful in all ways, no matter what their chronological age is.

According to a number of sources, it is not uncommon for 90 years old Hunza men to father children. Hunza women of 80 or more look no older than a western woman of 40 - and not only any woman, but one who is in excellent shape.

Absolutely reliable eyewitness reports, including those submitted by the intrepid Dr.  MacCarrisson, tell of 80 years old Hunza women performing hours of intense physical labor without exhibiting the least sign of fatigue. Since they dwell among mountains they have to climb sloppy hillsides so as to do many of their daily tasks.


As a result, even very old Hunza women remain slim, supple and graceful, and maintain excellent posture. One thing is sure they have never heard of the word diet, nor do they have any idea of what it means to be obese. Cellulite is completely unknown to them.

Hunza men are just as amazing. Their endurance and vigor, despite the burden of their years (actually the expression doesn’t have much meaning as far as the Hunzas are concerned - it would be more appropriate to say the lightness of their years!) is almost beyond belief. Witnesses, most of whom were highly skeptical at first, were amazed to see men over a hundred years old carrying backbreaking loads up steep mountain paths. These centenarians did not appear to be any more tired and even out of breath after completing their hard work than an ordinary man of forty.

Taking a three hour walk after meals - something they do as often as possible - is a favorite pastime. Such hikes are considered to be a reward for their labors. They come back without showing any fatigue whatsoever, and continue with their job as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Some cases are even more extraordinary. One Hunza man who, at the incredible age of 145 was still surprisingly agile, and who used no walking stick or any other form of support, defied any conventional definition of the term elderly. His back was as straight as a rod and his abdomen was flat and muscular, showing no sign of developing that appendage so common among western males - the pot belly.

That this ‘ancient’ (the Hunza equivalent of ‘golden age’) was in excellent shape was demonstrated in an unusual and quite incredible manner. He truly involved in a game of volleyball with a team of younger men half his age (most were around 70) and showed to be just as adept as they were at jumping and spiking the ball. It must have been a spectacular performance.

After the game he didn’t even take time out to rest, but instead headed off to a meeting of elders in a building that was perched on a cliff, 1500 feet higher than the volleyball field!

Eyewitness accounts like this one (and there are hundreds more we could quote if we had the space) elicit both our admiration and wonder. They also force us to ask the following question: 

Is there some secret technique that allows these people to live so long, and stay so healthy? 

The answer is yes - the Hunzas do know something we don’t. But there isn’t just one secret, there are many.

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