Alaska Bear Attack | Into The Wilds with Caroline Van Hemert | 3

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bear. Running. Toward me. Writer and wildlife biologist Caroline Van Hemert encountered only one dangerous bear on her four-thousand-mile trip from Washington to Alaska. She survived to write about it in The Sun is A Compass: My 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds. Caroline joins host Mike Corey to talk about her own experiences with bears, and what drew her to the story of snowboarder Bart Pieciul’s violent bear encounter, which she wrote about for Outside Magazine.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Against the Odds at Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:15.0	From Wondery, I'm Mike Corey, and this is Against the Odds.
0:31.0	Over the last two episodes, we've told the story of Bart Pichoules encounter with a brown bear protecting her cub in the wilderness near Haines, Alaska.
0:42.0	The mother bear mauled Bart, but he survived the attack.
0:46.0	It's one example of the encounters that can happen when bears and humans share the same habitat.
0:53.0	Alaska-based writer and wildlife biologist Caroline Van Hemerd wrote about Bart's story in her article,
0:59.0	It's No Fun to Wake a Sleeping Bear for Outside Magazine.
1:03.0	Her book, The Sun is a Compass, chronicles her 4,000-mile journey into the Alaskan wilderness.
1:09.0	Caroline is with us today to discuss Bart's story and her own experiences encountering bears in the wild.
1:16.0	Caroline Van Hemerd, welcome to Against the Odds.
1:21.0	Caroline Van Hemerd, thank you for having me here. I'm excited to talk to you.
1:24.0	So I grew up in the forest of Canada, Northeastern Canada, and I know growing up in the woods, you get to encounter all sorts of creatures out there.
1:36.0	But for you growing up in Alaska, it's a little bit different out there, isn't it?
1:41.0	I'd love to hear about your story about growing up over there and what kind of encounters you had with wildlife.
1:47.0	Yeah, so I grew up kind of on the edge of wilderness and actually Alaska's biggest city, which is Anchorage.
1:52.0	My parents moved here not too long before I was born and they were pretty big adventurers themselves.
1:58.0	And so our weekends were spent in the woods, in the mountains, exploring.
2:04.0	And I have to admit, I was a bit of an unwilling adventure as a child, but like it or not, I was out in the backcountry.
2:10.0	Most weekends and most days and even around town, we have lots of encounters with wildlife from moose to bears.
2:18.0	And yeah, so it was certainly part of my experience growing up.
2:21.0	I knew that we were not the only large animals on the landscape.
2:25.0	I think as a kid as well, you don't really appreciate how incredible outdoors is until you become an adult and realize big city life is nothing compared to what the forests are like.
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