Russian man builds dream house with own hands

A 70-year-old Russian mountain dweller has been building his dream house using natural materials for twenty years in the mountains of Russia's Republic of North Ossetia.

A handmade house Location: Verkhniy Biragzang, Russia Pavel Gatsoev has spent 20 years building his dream home from scratch using materials found in nature The house is mostly made of stones that he collected from a nearby river (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) 70-YEAR OLD RUSSIAN PENSIONER, PAVEL GATSOEV, SAYING: "You don't have to pay for it, here you can collect as many stones as you want and build.

I don't have money, if I had, then I would also build a brick house, like this one - a two-storey house.

But I do not have money for this, so we decided to make it out of stone." Pavel and his wife Svetlana also live a self-sufficient lifestyle and grow food, raise cows, and make cheese (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) GATSOEV'S WIFE, SVETLANA GATSOEVA, SAYING: "He does everything like the mountaineers did, they used to build houses from stones, find solutions, and he does the same.

How he manages to do this, I don't even know, he puts one stone on another and everything stands firmly."