The twenty-ninth day : surviving a grizzly attack in the Canadian tundra
"A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border."--Provided by publisher
eBook, English, 2019
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Blackstone Publishing, Ashland, OR, 2019
1 online resource (273 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
9781982583323, 1982583320
1127387814
Entering the Tiaga: days 1-2
Winter: days 3-8
Ice: days 9-13
Dubawnt Lake: days 14-16
The final push on Dubawnt Lake: days 17-18
Dubawnt Canyon: days 19-20
Ebb and flow: days 21-23
Leaving the Dubawnt River/trailblazing: days 24-25
The kunwak: days 26-27
Fate: day 28
A layover day: day 29, 10:00
A chance encounter: day 29, 19:29
Awakening: day 29, 19:31
Airway, breathing, circulation: day 29, 19:41
What now? day 29, 19:45
The evacuation algorithm: day 29, 19:50
The night: day 29. 23:00
Learning to walk: day 30
Loss: days 31-32
Fear: day 33
Surgery: day 34
Evac: day 35
Premonition