Sometimes they say you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you, but every so often, the bear may just have a little sit down with you instead. Drew Hamilton is an employee of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game who was camping at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge. He was watching other bears fish in the river below when a huge Alaskan brown bear walks up to his campsite and sits down right next to him. Thankfully, Hamilton kept his composure. The bear appears to be pretty calm and, although it is definitely a natural response, acting scared and screaming, running may have agitated the bear into action (and/or one or more of the other bears down in the river below). He managed to capture this incredible footage on a very close encounter, before the bear eventually walks away again. McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge is the home of the world's highest concentration of wild brown bears thanks to the area's abundant salmon population. According to their website, at least 144 individual bears can be spotted on the river over the course of the summer and up to 74 bears have been spotted in a single encounter. In order to protect humans and the bears, visitors receive permits to access the viewing area via a lottery system.
Of all people, you would think the gw would know not to lay his shotgun down. I'm not saying he should have shot it, but if he needed to, the bear was closer to the gun than he was. Oh, and my shorts would have matched the bears coat. Beautiful creatures....from a distance.
That is when you need a buddy there with ya. You just bend down and tie his shoelaces together and take off running! Gary
That guy could have easily ended up filming his own horrible death. It kinda seems like the bear doesn't know he's there at first.
Yeah, I've seen that movie. Dumb Timothy Treadwell, got his gf killed, and a few bars killed to out of that stupidity.
And tired... he'd had enough for a day. He'd have left me alone too... pantload would have made his eyes water...
Great video! I can't even imagine the adrenaline I would have had pumping through me. And... X4 or 5 on the load in my pants. I'm sure he's well versed in situations similar to that, but his composure is impressive!
