Teens recount Alaska terror
(NEWSER) - The teenagers were doing everything right, just as they'd been taught during their 24 days at Alaska's National Outdoor Leadership School: They were yelling to alert bears in the area of their presence as they crossed a river in a single file line. Then: "Bear! Bear!" yelled Joshua Berg, 17. The snarling grizzly rushed them—it "came really fast," which is "super unusual," says the program director—and before they had time to pull out their bear deterrent spray, the angry creature was upon them . Though they had been taught to play dead in such a situation, "natural instincts" took over instead, says Sam Gottsegen, 17: The boys ran. More»
