This eager tourist from Ketchican in Alaska had taken the tour to Run Amuck campsite to watch bears from a well-known view post near the Canadian border.
He stayed overnight outdoors 400 metres from the view post from Friday to Saturday when he became attacked and partly eaten by a brown bear. Bruce Bartley, a spokesman from the Wilderness Authorities in Alaska, says to the news agency AP that he can only remember three incidents in the last 20 years where humans have been attacked and eaten by bears.
The tourists in Run Amuck are disreputable for being extreme present to the bears. Maybe the tourist should stop disturbing the bears and leave them alone in the future?
Stein Morten Lund, 20 July 2000
Additional information
Read our article "Chased by two hungry bears in Alaska". Here you can get travel tips about how you shall behave if you encounter a bear.
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