Bear Sits With Photographer In Frightening Up-Close Encounter. Incredible Up-Close Encounter With Alaskan Brown Bear
Drew Hamilton, a tech worker with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, was photographing brown bears in the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge when he captured the shot of a lifetime.
Some people would need a new pair of underwear after an encounter like this one, but Hamilton remained cool as a cucumber.
The sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of wild brown bears, who take advantage of the area's abundant salmon population. Toward the end of the video, as the camera swings around, you can see about a dozen bears in the river.
At least 144 individual bears have been seen in the river over the course of a single summer, and up to 74 bears were spotted during one encounter, according to the sanctuary's website.
To protect the bears as well as humans, only people who win a lottery are given permits to access the viewing area.
No more than 10 people are allowed in at a time, and once at the viewing site all are confined to a small 10'x10' gravel viewing pad.
Drew Hamilton, a tech worker with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, was photographing brown bears in the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary and Refuge when he captured the shot of a lifetime.
Some people would need a new pair of underwear after an encounter like this one, but Hamilton remained cool as a cucumber.
The sanctuary is home to the world's largest concentration of wild brown bears, who take advantage of the area's abundant salmon population. Toward the end of the video, as the camera swings around, you can see about a dozen bears in the river.
At least 144 individual bears have been seen in the river over the course of a single summer, and up to 74 bears were spotted during one encounter, according to the sanctuary's website.
To protect the bears as well as humans, only people who win a lottery are given permits to access the viewing area.
No more than 10 people are allowed in at a time, and once at the viewing site all are confined to a small 10'x10' gravel viewing pad.
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That is fantastic.
Wonderful. Kudos to the photographer for maintaining calm.
Just think about it. He has no cubs to protect. He's not hungry. There's plenty of food in front of him. Yeah, I would say the photographer was relatively safe. But I know me..."nice bear. Nice bear. Don't eat me".
He even gently scolded the bear ("hey-ey-ey-ey!") and the bear turned away!
Haha! "Heya, what up dude. Nice view Im just gonna sit over here..."
Truly awesome!
Only at McNeil River.
That's amazing. However, the smell in my pants would have caused him to leave much quicker.
I would have made it ease for him. I would have had a heart attack!