12/27/2023 0 Comments Instaling Gone ViralIt was the sort of rescue that happens regularly in Alaska in the summer someone in officialdom, or simply other hikers, finds a lost visitor and guide him or her back to a trailhead. “‘Bear cam’ viewers save stranded hiker in Alaska” headlined the BBC, one of hundreds of news organizations around the world to pick up on his “rescue,” for lack of a better word. Little could the hiker know that he was about to become a news sensation in today’s internet-connected world as the man who would have died if not for that webcam and the eyes of the internet. Luckily, he soon found one of the two, sizeable radio repeater stations placed not far off the trail by the National Park Service and so they could lifestream footage of Brooks River brown bears around the world. He ended up lost atop barren Dumpling Mountain in Katmai National Park and Preserve in far Southwest Alaska after clouds moved to block the view of the popular Brooks River camp only a couple miles below the 2,440-foot plateau. The now famous yet unidentified Alaska hikerĪ lost hiker, a camera and an internet sensationĪ neophyte hiker did what no neophyte hiker should do in Alaska and went off trail.
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