History Main / MountainMan

* [[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/world/asia/wonnangatta-valley-disappearances.html The "Button Man"]] is a real-life, urban-legend-esque hermit living in the vast bush of Wonnangatta Valley, Australia who has been known to stalk unsuspecting hikers. Although [[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-19/how-four-people-disappeared-without-trace-in-victorian-mountains/12455124 a number of high-profile disappearances]] in Wonnangatta have made the Button Man a minor UrbanLegends celebrity, police reportedly interviewed and cleared him of any suspicion.

* The titular Film/CrocodileDundee is a very similar archetype, albeit in a radically different climate, being an expert tracker and outdoorsman who prefers a solitary lifestyle in the wilderness and obtains most of his income from hunting.

* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' with "Seymour Frishberg: Accountant of the Wild Frontier," who totes his briefcase up mountain ridges.

--->''"Raised the ol' girl from a cub, I did. 'Course, we had to get a few things straight between us. She don't try to follow me into town anymore, and [[HookHand I don't try and take her food bowl away]] 'til she's done."''

* James 'Grizzly' Adams and Mad Jack from ''Series/TheLifeAndTimesOfGrizzlyAdams''.

* The villain of the week in the ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' episode 'Mountain Man' was one. There were two, actually, Caleb Cole and the guy he killed, Carl the Hermit, who taught Duncan how to track. Caleb then got out-tracked,out-fought and beheaded by Macleod after kidnapping Tessa-instant BerserkButton for Duncan.

* In the ''Series/KungFu'' two part episode "Beseiged" we meet Tamo, a Chinese mountain man who lives on Cold Mountain. He's in his mid-70s and can still kick most people's ass.
* On ''Series/NorthernExposure'' a recurring character is Walt, a trapper in his mid 60s who becomes a love interest for local shopkeeper Ruth-Anne.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Marya is a rugged solitary young woman who lives in the wilderness and is straight up called a mountain woman. She comes from farther south than most examples as she's from Mexico, and she did, mostly, clean up for her stint as a student at Holliday College, but even then she pretty much refuses to wear shoes if the terrain doesn't require it and mostly keeps her own council and doesn't interact with the other students if she can help it.

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* Joe Crane from ''Series/TheSagaOfAndyBurnett'' from ''[[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]]'' (who also appeared in a few episodes Disney's ''Series/{{Zorro}}'' TV series).

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* Parodied in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' with "Seymour Frishberg: Accountant of the Wild Frontier," who totes his briefcase up mountain ridges.
** Another strip features a straighter example... and his [[BearsAreBadNews pet grizzly.]]
--->''"Raised the ol' girl from a cub, I did. 'Course, we had to get a few things straight between us. She don't try to follow me into town anymore, and [[HookHand I don't try and take her food bowl away]] 'til she's done."''

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They are often portrayed as incredibly strong, being TheBigGuy of western characters. This is also one of the character types most prone to [[WhiteManGoneNative going native]].

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} breathes this trope, having grown up in the backwoods of [[CanadaEh northern Alberta]], which isn't literally mountainous but ''is'' rugged and inhospitable as anything.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} breathes this trope, coming from the mountains of {{Canada|Eh}}. He's from Northern Alberta, which isn't exactly mountainous, but ''is'' inhospitable as anything.

See also {{Prospector}}, ThePioneer, and NatureHero.

* In 1984, a father and son pair of these abducted Olympic biathlete [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_Swenson Kari Swenson]] while she was out for a training run, wanting a wife for the son. She was rescued after a harrowing 18 hours, but not before being shot, caught in the crossfire between her kidnappers and would-be saviors.
* In 1966, another one of these kidnapped [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Peggy_Ann_Bradnick Peggy Ann Bradnick]] as she walked home from school, for the same purpose. After 8 days, she was finally rescued and her abductor shot dead.

** And, of course, [[BraveScot Scots]].

* ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' has the Mountaineer who lives on Mount Generic with his little daughter Jolene.

* Fungus in ''DeputyDink''.
* A similar character in ''AManCalledHorace''.
* Bear Fart Johnson, 200 year-old patriarch of the Johnson clan in ''OutlawNation''

* Brad Pitt's character in ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' seems to become this at the end.
* The [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Bear Man]] from the new version of ''Film/TrueGrit''.

* Discussed in ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise''.

* The poetry of Creator/RobertWService features many of these. You'll probably only recognize [[http://wordinfo.info/unit/2640?letter=C The Cremation of Sam McGee]]

-->"Daniel Boone didn't just wrestle bears but tried to date their sisters"

* The "Hiker", one of the many different standard Trainer types in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the founder and namesake of Springfield was a mountain man. (Or at least, that's how history recorded him..)

-->'''Buckle:''' No, seriously. They had this ... ''machine''.

* Earthquake from the ''Series/MacGyver'' episode "The Spoilers" is a modern day mountain man.

* DinosaurJr have a song called "Mountain Man" on their first album.

** And, of course, Scots.

* The "Hiker", one of the many different standard Trainer types in ''[[{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]''.

Common equipment includes various traps, a rifle (often anachronistic), and of course a ''really'' big knife, either a Bowie Knife, or an Arkansas Toothpick.

See also {{Prospector}} and NatureHero.