Who knew snapping an innocent picture of a grizzly bear at Alaska’s Denali National Park would lead to the death of forty-nine year-old hiker, Richard White? The park has been closed down until further notice. Click below to read more.
The San Diego resident had been backpacking alone for three nights when he was mauled to death by the bear, according to a park service statement. Grizzly bear kills backpacker in Alaska’s Denali National Park. Photographs found in his camera revealed that White was watching the bear for at least eight minutes near a river before the attack.” The bear was generally unaware that he was there until the last couple of shots, then his attention turned,” park spokeswoman Maureen McLaughlin said. The photographs “are not that demonstrative” and show “nothing graphic, or any showing major signs of aggression,” McLaughlin said. “We’re not sure what happened after the camera was put down.”State troopers, park rangers and wildlife biologists, using the photos to identify the “large male bear,” shot and killed the animal as it was still “defending the kill site along the Toklat River as the recovery team attempted to reach White’s remains,” the park service said. A necropsy of the bear Saturday night confirmed it was the animal that killed White, the statement said.
