Bear AttackConstant Wonder • Season 2022, Episode 738, Segment 1
Nov 11, 2020 • 45m
Guest: Alex Messenger, photographer, and author of “The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra"
Alex Messenger was only 17 years old when he was mauled by a 600-pound grizzly bear in the middle of a camping trip. How cool-headed thinking helped him survive and how his experience informs his volunteer search-and-rescue work.