Hikers in Alaska Have Face-to-Face Encounter With Grizzly Bear in Terrifying Moment Caught on Viral Video
They kept their cool, and that just might have saved their lives.
Hiking is a great pastime and exercise, but it can also be dangerous, depending on where you are.
One of the most terrifying things that can befall hikers is to bump into a bear – and worse, a grizzly bear.
For three hikers in an Alaskan trail, the outdoor event turned into a horrific test of survival after their heart-pounding encounter with a grizzly bear.
🇺🇸 | Un grupo de excursionistas se mantuvo notablemente calmado durante un encuentro cercano con un oso grizzly en un sendero estrecho de Alaska, hablando suavemente mientras el oso pasaba pacíficamente. pic.twitter.com/UWDaXQo0lT
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The New York Post reported:
“The hikers rounded a corner and found themselves face-to-face with the bear, nicknamed ‘Scuba Sue’, while it was hunting for salmon along a narrow trail at the Anan Creek Wildlife Observatory in southeast Alaska.
Speaking on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’, the trio detailed how they relied on crucial park ranger safety protocols to stay calm after finding themselves trapped on the path.
’We’d actually been watching bears, hoping that there were salmon coming up the river. We saw about four or five bears earlier. Those were black bears. And then coming back on the trail, we had an unexpected encounter’, Dr. Michelle Lynn Thaller said. ‘Right around the corner came this grizzly bear’.”