Learning To Love The Grizzly Bears At Katmai National Park
Wikimedia Commons Grizzly Bears feeding at Brooks Falls in Alaska’s Katmai National Park.
At first, Amie Huguenard was wary of the apex predators, which can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. But Treadwell had charm and a passion for the bears that assuaged her fear. He even once told David Letterman that they were nothing but “party animals.”
And during their summer visits, the bears were largely docile, spending much of their days resting and feeding, helping Huguenard to feel safe around them. Although she and Treadwell were anything but.
“Amie had a kind of naïveté about her that added a real sweetness to her entire persona. At times it was easy to convince her of things that were not entirely true,” Stephen Bunch, one of Amie’s old boyfriends, wrote after her death.
“But I always felt I could trust her because she bestowed the same trust in you unconditionally.”
Still, Amie Huguenard also witnessed Treadwell’s confrontations with the National Park Service. Park rangers were concerned that Treadwell was placing himself and others in danger by approaching the bears so closely and that he was maintaining dangerous camping practices on his quest to stop poachers.
Huguenard and Treadwell were sinking deeper into some critical mistakes. Crucially, and contrary to generations of Alaskan received wisdom and wildlife expertise, Amie Huguenard and Timothy Treadwell believed that the grizzlies were becoming “[their] animals.”
“Tim would honestly die if it meant these animals could live,” Huguenard wrote.
Timothy incluso grabó videos de él jugando con las crías de los osos
Timothy y su novia lograron fotografiarse jugando con las crías de los osos.
Timothy consideraba a los osos como sus amigos y, según él, sabía perfectamente cómo confrontarlos para que no lo atacaran.
Los novios que grabaron cómo un oso los devoró en seis minutos
La muerte de Timothy Treadwell (46) y su novia Amie Hugenard (37) ha pasado a la historia por el crudo relato que logró registrarse de sus fallecimientos, cuando un oso grizzly los atacó en el Parque Nacional Katmai, en Alaska, Estados Unidos, el verano del 5 de octubre de 2003.
Luego de Timothy siguió su novia
En un punto dado, la voz de Timothy se extingue, y se escuchan los gritos de su novia, Amie Huguenard.
La mujer batalló por 2 minutos, hasta que sólo se escuchaba el sonido de la lluvia y los jadeos del oso.