- A man spent several weeks alone in a hut near a desolate river in the Alaskan wilderness.
- According to the New York Times, when he asked for help, a grizzly bear tortured him every night.
- Then, due to a detour, a Coast Guard crew accidentally spotted him waving for help.
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A man living in a shack in a remote camp in the Alaska wilderness spent several weeks alone, fighting with local bears, until a Coast Guard pilot stumbled upon him waving for help.
According to the New York Times, This man is in his 50s or 60s. It is not clear how he came to the remote cabin 60 kilometers outside of Nome, Alaska.
The man engraved messages such as “SOS” and “Help me” on the roof of the shed near the river basin. According to The Times, a grizzly bear visits this man every night and even tore off the door of the hut before he was rescued.
According to reports, Coast Guard Commander Jared Kabahar and four of his crew travelled from Kotzebue to Nome to monitor the coastline for dead whales, seals and walruses.
Insider contacted the Alaska office of the Coast Guard for more details.
Due to cloudy visibility, Carbajal flew over a different valley than expected, where they found a lost person.
“If we are over there in the next valley,” Commander Kabahar told The Times, “we will miss him completely.”
Lieutenant AJ Hammac, Carbajal’s co-pilot, saw the man walk out of his cabin and waved to the helicopter with both hands. The crew realized that the waves meant that the man was in trouble.
“At some point, a bear dragged him to the river,” Kabahar told the New York Times. “He said that the bear comes back every night, and he hasn’t slept for a few days.”
The man was taken to the hospital. After the helicopter landed, he reportedly insisted on walking to the ambulance.
“I think you can see that his adrenaline is starting to drop and start to realize what’s going on,” Kabahar told Time. “He didn’t want to enter the gurney.
