Timothy Treadwell was an American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker, and founder of the bear-protection organization Grizzly People. He lived among coastal brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska, for 13 summers On October 5, 2003, Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and almost fully eaten by a 28-year-old male bear whose stomach was later found to contain human remains and clothing.
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Your fault, their fault, nobody’s fault. Sooner or later, something is gonna go wrong.
Supposedly their deaths were recorded, or at least the audio was.
Honestly kind of impressive he won that many hands of Russian Roulette before things went sideways there.
If he was gonna be an idiot, fine, but it was tragic his girlfriend suffered and died for his hubris.
Two bears were killed by rangers trying to recover the bodies. That’s the real tragedy.
I’m still not convinced it wasn’t suicide by bear
This isn’t being a evangelist on North Sentinel Island stupid, but it is damn close.
If you look it up the previous 12 summers he knew the group of bears but in the 13th a new group of bears showed up and he tried his luck (and lost).
A Nandor meme? In this economy?
There’s someone who should’ve read There’s A Hair in My Dirt.
He actually succeeded in befriending the bears before an unrelated bear wandered in and killed him
Counterpoint: How many of you would have bet he would survive even 1 summer doing that?
*Or more than 10?*
I will never not think of Ron White’s routine on Grizzly Man and the punchline
[https://youtu.be/6UMWndnqyFE?si=8gzWZsbn_yoMlQVM](https://youtu.be/6UMWndnqyFE?si=8gzWZsbn_yoMlQVM)
The bear: “So, you have chosen death.”
Girlfriend: “Can I opt out?”
The bear: “You may not.”
My parents used to go to Alaska every summer and heard about him before the mauling happened. The general consensus among locals was that it was just a matter of time, and they hoped he just didn’t get anyone else killed with him.