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at a pretty good clip, I guess.

I was kinda... trottin' along.

And as I got in the thickest

part of the alders right here,

as I got near the airplane,

I just happened to turn around.

And I turned around

and looked and...

Pretty nasty-Iooking bear

that I had seen here before

is just sneaking slow,

with his head down.

Just the meanest-Iooking thing

coming through the brush.

So I jumped on the airplane

real quick and untied it.

And took off. Turned around,

flew over camp there.

Just looked down

and saw a human rib cage

that I knew had to be

either Tim or Amie laying there.

And he was just eating that.

And as l...

So I circled around again.

Got really low,

and tried to run him off.

Just over and over again with the airplane.

Every time I would come over,

he'd just start eating faster

and faster and crouch over

this rib cage there.

And right at that time,

I just realized, "Wow!

I was pretty close to gettin' eaten myself"

is what I thought.

And this shot of adrenalin like

I've never had just came over me.

And my throat went...

couldn't breathe.

My face went numb.

My arms and legs went numb.

And then I called back...

back to the office,

and told them what happened out here,

what I thought had happened.

And that we would need some assistance

out here. That we had some problems.

After the Park Service arrived,

then I'm leading them up through the alders.

This is the same trail

that I'd come up the first time.

We got to about right here,

and we just stopped.

We stopped just to take

a look around.

Right then, one guy with us

just yells, "Bear!"

And they all spin around. These gun barrels

come over the top of my head.

Boy, they just start

firing them off.

I ducked down 'cause

they hadn't given me a gun.

I'd look up, and they'd fire

over and over again.

Then I look up when they're done firing

and there's just a cloud of smoke here.

I look over, and the bear

is laying right there.

They're yelling at me,

just don't go near the bear.

I knew he was dead.

He'd been shot in the head

and the neck and everywhere.

He was just laying here

pretty much lifeless.

And this is right where...

where the bear...

I told them at the time, I said,

"This is the bear that killed Tim."

I knew, 'cause that was the same bear

that I had seen down here

looking at me right through

the alder bushes there.

So I knew this was the bear.

I said, "Yep, that'll be the one."

That wound up being the bear

that they found Tim in.

I'm here on camera with Olie, the big old bear.

The big old grumpy bear.

He just took Cracker

out of the creek area.

There's not a lot of fish here

so you can understand him wanting

to have control of the creek.

He's acting like

an alpha male here.

Which, I guess, for the fact that he is

the only male here, he is the alpha male.

At any rate, he's also...

He's a surly bear.

I met him on the path

the other day,

after feeling sorry for him, thinking

that he was a bit thin, a bit gaunt...

And he promptly charged me

with the intent to probably strike.

I know the language

of the bear.

I was able to deter him from doing that,

and I'm fine.

But I will tell you something.

It is the old bear, one who is struggling

for survival,

and an aggressive one at that,

who is the one

that you must be very careful of.

For these are the bears,

that on occasion,

do, for survival,

kill and eat humans.

Could Olie, the big old bear,

possibly kill and eat Timothy Treadwell?

What do you think, Olie?

I think if you were weak around him,

you're going down his gullet,

going down the pipe.

Right up top of the hill here

is where we found

what was left of Tim's body...

his head and a little bit of backbone.

And we found

a hand, arm,

wristwatch still on the arm.

I remember the watch.

Shoot, I can remember the watch.

And here's a guy

that used to dive in the lake down here

naked to scare the airplanes away.

And here I'm finding his watch

and arm on top of the hill.

And here's about all that's left

of the bear that killed him.

A few pieces of rib bone.

This bear was shot,

and drug off and eaten

by other bears here,

right in this area.

The tough thing out of all this is Tim would

have never wanted to see any bears killed.

Even if they had killed him,

he would've...

He would've been happy

if nobody found him.

Nobody found any remains.

Nobody found his camp or anything.

He would've been

perfectly content.

He definitely lived

on the edge. But he...

He was a little smarter than everyone

gave him credit for.

He made it out here a long time

before they caught up with him.

And actually the bear

that wound up killing him

was just a dirty rotten bear

that he didn't like anyway.

He wanted to be friends with,

but never happened.

I want to introduce you to one of the key

role players in this year's expedition.

The bear's name is The Grinch.

The Grinch has come on

to be one of the more

frequent bears

here in the Grizzly Maze.

The Grinch is a female

of about five years of age.

Oh, hi, Grinch. Hi.

And she has kind of

an aggressive attitude.

Hi.

If I turn around too much, she'll bite me.

It's okay. Hi. How are you?

How are you?

Don't you do that.

Don't you do that!

Back off!

Don't do it.

It's okay. I love you.

I love you. I love you.

I love you.

I love you. I'm sorry.

I'm Sam Egli.

I was called out as a helicopter pilot

to assist on the cleanup after

the Treadwell tragedy of last winter.

I was in there the morning

the Fish and Game officers

were there examining

the bear that had done

the killing.

The bear was all cut open.

It was full of people.

It was full of clothing. It was...

We hauled away

four garbage bags of people

out of that bear.

Treadwell was, I think,

meaning well, trying to do things

to help the resource of the bears.

But to me

he was acting like...

like he was working with people

wearing bear costumes out there

instead of wild animals.

Those bears are big

and ferocious,

and they come equipped

to kill ya and eat ya.

And that's just what

Treadwell was asking for.

He got what

he was asking for.

He got what he deserved,

in my opinion.

The tragedy of it

was taking the girl with him.

I think the only reason

that Treadwell lasted

as long in the game as he did

was that the bears probably thought

there was something wrong with him.

Like he was mentally retarded

or something.

That bear, I think,

that day decided that he had

either had enough

of Tim Treadwell,

or that something clicked

in that bear's head

that he thought, "Hey, you know,

he might be good to eat."

My opinion,

I think Treadwell thought

these bears were big,

scary looking, harmless creatures

that he could go up and pet

and sing to,

- and they would bond

- Look it there!

As children of the universe

or some odd.

I think he had lost sight

of what was really going on.

He wanted to become like the bear.

Perhaps it was religious,

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