“I was looking for an adventure,” said Samuel Gottsegen, the Denver teenager who survived a grizzly bear attack in the Alaska this weekend. His adventure came with bite marks in his head and a pierced lung.
Gottsegen, 17, took part in the National Outdoor Leadership School student expedition with 13 other students and three instructors. On the last leg of the trip, seven students remained in what NOLS spokesperson Bruce Palmer describes as a “self-sufficiency field base experience.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/grizzly-bear-attack-survivor-describes-alaskan-ordeal/t/story?id=14152757
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They had this on the local news as a local teen was in the group (not one of the injured).
They said the 2nd teen who was hurt came to the 1st teen’s defense by kicking the bear as it continued to maul the 1st teen. Pretty courageous kid.
I’d love to do something that, with a good gun of course.