Kinda sad. I remember watching this guy on Letterman. He was kinda funny. He spent a lot of time talking about how to be safe around bears. Oops.
Bear Mauling Kills Grizzly Advocate, Friend (Reuters on Yahoo! News)
The deaths were discovered when an air-taxi pilot flew to the site Monday afternoon to pick up the campers. He found the campsite damaged and a brown bear atop what appeared to be a human body, eating the remains.
I always enjoy these stories about these tree-hugging dirt worshipper types who get killed by nature. Like the woman who went to Pamplona to protest the killing of the bulls in bullfights, who ended up getting gored and tossed around like a ragdoll by one of them. Unfortunately, she survived. Idiot.
follow up… Apparently, audio of the killings was recorded:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20031009/ap_on_re_us/bear_attack_3&printer=1
I hope one of the cops or somebody leaks a copy on to P2P. I am morbidly curious to hear what a brown bear mauling death sounds like.
I heard that bear wasn’t trying to kill them — that it sensed danger and was trying to protect them. :)