I gave up my life in London to become a goat living in the Swiss mountains: Brit created prosthetic legs, ate grass, became accepted by the herd… and says they make ‘better people than we do’

Exhausted by the stresses and strains of modern life, Thomas Thwaites decided to forgo home comforts and test if the grass really was greener elsewhere – by living as a goat in Switzerland.The then 35-year-old from London was so serious about his unusual idea...