In a terrifying twist of fate, the camera kept recording throughout the assault, obtaining six terrifying minutes of audio that chronicled their death.
Huguenard’s question regarding the bear’s presence opens the tape, which then cuts to Treadwell’s frantic pleas for assistance as he is being mauled.
As Huguenard tries to repel the bear with a frying pan amid cries and yells, Treadwell exhorts her to fight back.
When their air taxi pilot, Willy Fulton, arrived on the site, he saw a terrifying image: a bear perched on a heap of human corpses and a gloomy quiet.
Together with their unfinished evening snack, their tent was ripped and fell. Treadwell’s skull was among the dispersed bones discovered during later inspections among a pile of twigs and grass.
Later, Werner Herzog’s documentary “Grizzly Man” memorialized the catastrophe. The tragic tale of Treadwell and Huguenard serves.
As a sobering reminder of the unpredictability and often hazardous nature of relationships between people and animals.
