How Amie Huguenard Met “Grizzly Man” Timothy Treadwell
Lionsgate Films Timothy Treadwell gained widespread fame and notoriety for his interactions with grizzly bears, appearing on nationally syndicated talk shows and in schools as a bear advocate.
Amie Lynn Huguenard was born in Buffalo, New York, on October 23, 1965. She developed an interest in science and medicine and was also fascinated by the outdoors, spending much of her spare time hiking and climbing while working as a doctor’s assistant in Colorado.
It was during this period in 1997 that she read a book, Among Grizzlies, whose author claimed to have found solace from drug addiction in the company of Alaska’s brown bears. The writer’s name was Timothy Treadwell.
Soon, Amie Huguenard reached out to Treadwell, thus beginning a relationship which would last for nearly six years. It wasn’t long before she was flying up to Alaska to spend portions of the summers with him among the grizzlies of Katmai National Park.
During her annual trips north with Treadwell, Huguenard proved to be a capable companion. Her hiking and survival skills prepared her well for Katmai, over 12,000 square miles of wilderness home to more than 2,000 brown bears.
And in January 2003, she moved to live with him in Malibu, California, taking a position as a physician’s assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Un director aconsejó que se destruyera la cinta por ser muy perturbadora
El cineasta Werner Herzog hizo un documental llamado “Grizzly Man”, en el que recreó todo lo que había sucedido.
Luego de escuchar la cinta, Herzog quedó mentalmente perturbado y les dijo a la familia de Timothy que no la escucharan y que destruyeran la cinta.
Se sabe que la cinta no se destruyó y se guarda en la caja fuerte de un banco.
Hay algunos videos en YouTube que afirman tener el audio de Timothy, pero no se sabe con certeza si es el audio genuino.
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Timothy y su novia decidieron quedarse en Otoño, la estación más peligrosa con los osos
En el 2006, Timothy y su novia decidieron quedarse en el parque en pleno otoño. La estación más peligrosa.
Esto se debió a que los osos están comiendo todo lo que pueden para prepararse para hibernar en el invierno.
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.
Cuando el Taxi Avión fue a buscarlos, el piloto se encontró con una escena horrible
Timothy había contratado a un taxi-avión para que los recogiera el 6 de Octubre del 2003.
El piloto llegó y encontró el campamento de la pareja completamente destruidos.
El piloto gritó sus nombres pero no obtuvo respuesta, por lo que usó su radio para llamar a la policía.