The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra
My special guest is Alex Messenger who's here to discuss how he managed to reach help 1000 miles away after being mauled by a grizzly bear deep in the Canadian Wilderness. Get his book The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzle Attack in the Canadian Wilderness on Amazon.
A 600-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a 17-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.
This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border.
The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. They can gore you. They're not something that you want to mess with.
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And so that was a bad situation that I thought I was about to walk into. And then we both kept walking another step and this grizzly bear stepped into view.
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And I instantly knew that this was just the worst case scenario that I just walked into. We both kind of were doing the same thing, head down. We walked into each other's view and then head snapped up and eyes locked.
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And we both were like, oh my God, this is bad. Wow. And you were up there by yourself, right? And we were 30 feet apart. I was up there by myself. Yep. By yourself. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. And tell me what happened. Wow.
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So we were 30 feet apart. Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting MysteriousRadio.com.
