Grizzly Man Page #2

With him is Amie Huguenard,

who would die by his side.

The man who took the photo

was Willy Fulton,

a close friend of Timothy's,

and the pilot

who would bring him to this remote part

of the Alaskan peninsula.

Treadwell saw himself

as the guardian of this land

and stylized himself

as Prince Valiant,

fighting the bad guys with their schemes

to do harm to the bears.

But all this land is

a federally protected reserve,

part of Katmai National Park.

This big plain,

Treadwell called "The Sanctuary."

Here he would spend

the early summer months

before moving along

some 35 miles

to this densely overgrown area

which he called

"The Grizzly Maze"

where he would observe

the late summer salmon run.

It was here that Fulton

would pick him up in the fall.

On October 6 last year,

this is the spot here at Kaflia Lake

where I pulled in

to pick up Tim and Amie.

Typical day out here.

Rain, foggy, a lot of wind.

It was kinda strange.

Didn't see him, didn't hear anything.

No gear on the beach

or anything.

I tied up, and I started

yelling a little bit.

"Tim! Amie!" And no answer.

I caught a little tiny bit

of movement up on the hill,

so I'm like, it was windy, maybe they

just couldn't hear me or something.

So I decided I'd go up

in the camp,

and see what was going on.

And headed off

up through the alders.

It's kind of a thick trail

up into camp there.

Got about three-quarters

of the way up the hill,

and something just didn't feel right at all,

something seemed strange.

I'm yelling and no answer.

So I turned around

and started coming back down the trail

at a pretty good clip, I guess.

I was kinda... trottin' along.

And as I got in the thickest

part of the alders right here,

as I got near the airplane,

I just happened to turn around.

And I turned around

and looked and...

Pretty nasty-Iooking bear

that I had seen here before

is just sneaking slow,

with his head down.

Just the meanest-Iooking thing

coming through the brush.

So I jumped on the airplane

real quick and untied it.

And took off. Turned around,

flew over camp there.

Just looked down

and saw a human rib cage

that I knew had to be

either Tim or Amie laying there.

And he was just eating that.

And as l...

So I circled around again.

Got really low,

and tried to run him off.

Just over and over again with the airplane.

Every time I would come over,

he'd just start eating faster

and faster and crouch over

this rib cage there.

And right at that time,

I just realized, "Wow!

I was pretty close to gettin' eaten myself"

is what I thought.

And this shot of adrenalin like

I've never had just came over me.

And my throat went...

couldn't breathe.

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