Alaska Bear Attack | In Defense of Life and Property | 1

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Alaska Bear Attack | Three Long Hours | 2

After Bart Pieciul is mauled by a bear in the Alaska wilderness, his friends have to use all of their outdoor knowledge to keep him alive. The three men are stranded in the mountains for hours, waiting for a Coast Guard helicopter to airlift Bart to the nearest hospital. ...

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Alaska Bear Attack | Into The Wilds with Caroline Van Hemert | 3

Bear. Running. Toward me. Writer and wildlife biologist Caroline Van Hemert encountered only one dangerous bear on her four-thousand-mile trip from Washington to Alaska. She survived to write about it in The Sun is A Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan ...

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