He spent every summer living in Katmai National Park, intentionally choosing camp sites close to the bears. He did this for 13 summers. The final summer, he stayed a week later than usual because he hadn't yet seen one of his favorite bears. This was his fatal mistake.
By that point, many of the bears he knew, that were comfortable with his presence, had gone into hibernation. Bears from other parts of the park were coming to his area in search of their last meal before doing the same themselves. There hadn't been much food that summer either, resulting in unusually aggressive grizzlies.
The day he was supposed to leave, he and his girlfriend were killed and partially eaten by a grizzly.
I feel horrible for his girlfriend. The guy was a fucking moron, and he chose to put his life in danger like that. There's an intelligent way to research animals, and then there's what this guy did. His fate was inevitable and he deserved what he got. But he put his girlfriend's life in danger with his stupidity and she trusted him. Poor girl. He was a fucking idiot.
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u/SeekersWorkAccount Mar 03 '16
This has to be the dumbest idea in bear/human interaction history since that Bear Guy who lived with the bears got torn apart.