It reads like the plot of a thriller movie or page-turning novel.
A man in Alaska was rescued, injured but alive, after enduring repeated attacks by a grizzly bear that kept on returning to his isolated hut in the wilderness, from which he had no way of contacting the outside world.
The unnamed man’s ordeal was detailed in the New York Times, which described the story as “a weeklong ordeal that could pass as a sequel to The Revenant”. It ended only when a fortuitously passing coast guard helicopter spotted the man desperately waving for help and having written SOS and “Help me” on the roof of his tin shack.
The paper said the man in his 50s or 60s had been alone at a mining camp about 40 miles from the isolated town of Nome when he encountered the bear, which had attacked him and dragged him down to a river.
