 Timothy
Treadwell, 46, was widely known for his unusual and controversial habit of spending
his summers in Alaska living among wild grizzly bears. Treadwell had spent 13
summers in Alaska getting to know the grizzly bears. During his last 5 summers
he videoed his encounters and much of the video footage eventually made it to
television where he gained a sort of celebrity status for his work. He
was the co-author of "Among Grizzlies" (see below)
While most of us spend
time and effort trying to avoid up close encounters with bears, Treadwell was
spending his summers getting closer to them in both a spiritual sense and a
physically one. In fact he sometimes got close
enough to touch them or even more frequently within just a few feet of them.
The last two years he spent in Alaska he brought along his girl friend Amie
Huguenard, 37. Although she was in very little of the video footage, we know from
Treadwell's diary that she was not comfortable around the bears most of the
time. In one short sequence of footage that can be seen on the movie "Grizzly
Man" (see below) Amie is seen about 10 feet from two large grizzlies and she
was obviously very uncomfortable being that close to the bears. Who besides
Treadwell wouldn't be?
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