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This is the man so intrigued by goats he gave it all up to live with them in the mountains.
Thomas Thwaites spent three days as part of a herd in the Swiss Alps while investigating goat behaviour.
He used special prosthetic limbs made to enable him to move around on all fours easily.
Tim Bowditch Among friends: The designer persuaded a goat herder to let him join in
And the designer even considered having a fake stomach fitted to let him to eat grass, just like his four-legged friends.
Mr Thwaites cloven-hooved sojourn was aimed at “taking a break from being
He told Mashable: “My goal was to take a holiday from the pain and worry of being a self-conscious being, able to regret the past and worry about the future.”
Mr Thwaites is a British conceptual designer interested in how humans will use technology to fulfil their desires
But being a goat wasn’t a completely care-free existence.
Tim Bowditch Pasture: Thomas described finally catching up with the goats in a grassy field as ‘quite nice’
He told Motherboard: “I was able to keep up for maybe a kilometre or so on this migration down the side of this kind of rocky mountain, and then they just left me in the dust.
“So I spent the rest of the day trying to catch up to them and eventually I found them again, and it was quite nice, in the actual soft grassy pasture bit.
Tim Bowditch Frightening: Heading down the mountain was ‘petrifying’ says Thomas
“But actually heading down the mountain was petrifying. Because if I fell I didn’t have any hands to stop me from hitting a rock.”
Thwaites has written a book about his experiences, called ‘GoatMan; How I Took a Holiday from Being Human’.
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