THE MASTERPIECE
Sep 27, 2020
3 minutes
DAN JOLIN
Grizzly Man
EVERY SUMMER FOR 13 years, Timothy Treadwell lived with bears. Former drug addict, failed actor, environmentalist and self-styled “kind warrior”, Treadwell would pitch camp in the Alaskan wilderness of Katmai, unarmed even with pepper spray, and flagrantly break National Park Service laws to bring himself hazardously close to the creatures he loved. Creatures he identified with more than humans, to the degree that he considered himself “one of them”. Then, on October 5, 2003, he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and eaten by a grizzly, leaving only
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