Gray bear attacks on hikers in the United States are just a matter of time, and how to stay safe (exclusive)

• A new book for Emir Andrews recounts more than ten scenarios of the worst cases when humans crossed paths with Grizlies and other bears
• “The only thing common among the victims is to be in the wrong place in the wrong time,” the wilder has long been said.
• Among the stories in Do bear attacks are incredible Is what happened to the Swiss tourists, Brigita Friedinagen?

After spending decades in writing outdoors, Lamar Andrewod, 88, former editor -in -chief Sport and Life in the open air Magazines, you expect it to be just a matter of time – days or weeks – so that the other shewaler in the United States is attacked by a gray bear.

“I just wait, it will not be long now,” says Anderwood.

“This is when they start leaving hibernation, trying to get some food, and a person who travels in GRIZLY – maybe in the GLACIRE National Park, Yellowstone, or somewhere in Alaska – will walk in trouble,” he explains.

Anderwood recently released his latest book, Doop attacks are incredible: terrifying tales about brutal confrontations between bears and peopleWhich recounts more than ten previous scenarios the worst cases when humans crossed with Grizlies, black bears, brown bears and bears Kodiak in the wild.

“Everything you hear about Grizly Bears is correct,” says Andrews, who has composed nearly 20 books in the open air.

He says: “It is one of the most dangerous animals on this planet, and the final predators,” up to 800 pounds, with an incredibly and half -feet length. ”

Every year, starting from the spring when Grizlies woke up months ago, he spent between 30 to 40 people – in Alaska, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, a small part of Washington and British Colombia – they were attacked, killing two people to three people, after contacting these animals.

However, the majority of the bear’s confrontations pass without an accident – most of the attacks occur when they stumble in the back country on the sheep by chance.

“The only common thing among the victims is to be in the wrong place in the wrong time,” Andrewwood says. “One of the keys to staying safe is to make a lot of noise and not travel across the amazing country on its own. Ninety -nine times out of a hundred, the bear will escape as quickly as possible.”

“But,” he adds, “when he does not escape when the troubles occur.”

One of the “worst attacks” that Andrewwood coincided with his decades in the open air covering-and included in his new book-includes an accident in July 1984 when a 25-year-old Swiss tourist named Brigita Friednehn was traveled to the Yellowstone National Park for Lifting and Camp in the simple wilderness.

“I just made a mistake,” Andrewwood says. “I went alone.”

Friednhagen was an experienced manner. Hours before her death, she retired to her tent after cooking dinner, removing all her food from the camp site and lifting it into a tree.

After being reported to be lost the next day, Rangers arrived in her camp to discover pieces of her body around the area near that Gray apparently brought her out of the rest of her tent.

“He was horrific,” says Anderwood. “The bears are killed by a group of physical strikes with their claws and your stabilization with their teeth. They will tire you completely.”

Andrewwood, who is in the open air, admits that he felt that the only time he felt in a “wrong danger” during all his wild adventures came during a hunting trip on the Alaska River in the eighties.

Moments after she arrived at her appointed location near a curve in the river, both his mentor and partner toured hunting towards the source, leaving Andrews alone.

“They were not out of view for only a minute or two when I started hearing the sounds coming from Aldr bushes along the river,” Andrewwood, who took off instinctively to join his guide in a gun guide.

“I knew exactly what it was and was so close that I could smell wet scent … that could have been the story of my tragic bear – but I think this was not my time.”