US Coast Guard rescues man stalked by grizzly bear for days in Alaska

The New York Times said the ordeal could pass as a sequel to the movie The Revenant
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Michael Howie23 July 2021

A man has been rescued by a helicopter in a remote corner of Alaska after he was stalked by a grizzly bear for a week.

The US Coast Guard helicopter crew came to his aid after spotting an SOS message on a shack roof as the man waved his arms in the air calling for help.

He told them he had not slept for days as he had been attacked by the bear which kept returning to his remote camp.

The Coast Guard helicopter transported him to Nome, where the unnamed man insisted on walking to a waiting ambulance despite suffering from chest bruising and an injured leg which he had taped up.

He told officials he had arrived at the mining camp on 12 July, and some days later encountered the grizzly. which dragged him to a river.

The man, in his 50s or 60s, managed to escape its clutches, suffering injuries in the process, and struggled back to a hut at the camp where he treated his wounds.

But the bear came back time and again over the following week. At one point it ripped the door of the hut from its hinges.

He gave a full account of the drama to the New York Times, which described the story as “a weeklong ordeal that could pass as a sequel to The Revenant”.

“He said that the bear kept coming back every night and he hadn’t slept in a few days,” Lieutenant Commander Jared Carbajal, one of the pilots of the Coast Guard helicopter, toldthe paper.

The ordeal only ended when the helicopter luckily spotted the man waving for help and the “Help me” sign he had written on the roof of his tin shack.

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