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  Speaker 1: into today's story. On July nineteenth, twenty thirteen, forty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old Matt Dyer climbed on board a tiny, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seat twin otter airplane that was parked on the tarmac
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  Speaker 1: of the Montreal International Airport in Canada. Matt was about
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  Speaker 1: to take off on the first of two flights that
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  Speaker 1: would take him and seven other adventurous people deep into
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  Speaker 1: one of the most remote and wild regions in North America.
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  Speaker 2: For Matt, this trip.
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  Speaker 1: Was going to be the most amazing journey of his life.
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  Speaker 1: He had seen the ad for this two week long
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  Speaker 1: expedition about a year earlier when he was looking through
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  Speaker 1: a magazine put out by an environmental organization called the
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  Speaker 1: Sierra Club. Now, even though Matt was a lawyer, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't make much money. He lived in this tiny town
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  Speaker 1: in central Maine, where he made a living by offering
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  Speaker 1: either free or very low cost legal life assistance for
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  Speaker 1: some of the state's poorest residents. But Matt was an
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  Speaker 1: avid outdoorsman, and when he saw the opportunity to explore
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  Speaker 1: one of Canada's newest national parks that was so far
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  Speaker 1: north it was practically in the Arctic Circle, he decided
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  Speaker 1: the hefty six thousand dollars price tag was well worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Two and a half hours later, after flying over nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles, due north away from the airport in Montreal.
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  Speaker 1: The twin otter airplane that Matt and the others were
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  Speaker 1: riding on touched down on a narrow gravel landing strip
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  Speaker 1: situated between this huge forest on a mountain side and
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  Speaker 1: a river on the other side. After climbing off the
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  Speaker 1: plane with all of their equipment, Matt and the seven
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  Speaker 1: others hustled their way over to the stretch of flimsy
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  Speaker 1: plywood buildings that lined the runway. These buildings and this
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  Speaker 1: entire area they were in was not a part of
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  Speaker 1: this new national park they were going to. This was
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  Speaker 1: like their staging area to prepare and get ready before
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  Speaker 1: catching another flight that would bring them into the park.
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  Speaker 1: And Matt and the seven other people he was with,
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  Speaker 1: which included the two trip leaders from the Sierra Club,
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  Speaker 1: they would stay at this temporary base camp for the
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  Speaker 1: next couple of days, going over their hiking routes and
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  Speaker 1: talking about emergency procedures and protocols. And then after those
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  Speaker 1: two days were up, the group felt like they were ready,
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  Speaker 1: and so the group packed up all their things and
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  Speaker 1: they boarded the tiny floatplane out on the water that
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  Speaker 1: would take them to their final destination. This New Canadian
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  Speaker 1: National Park, better known as the Torngot Mountains. Forty five
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, the pilot of the floatplane began to descend
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  Speaker 1: through the clouds to make their landing on a little
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  Speaker 1: water inlet, And as the pilot did that, Matt and
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  Speaker 1: the seven others were able to look out the window
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  Speaker 1: and actually see the Tornngot Mountains for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Now, all of.
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  Speaker 1: Them had seen dozens and dozens of pictures of this area,
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  Speaker 1: but seeing it for the first time in person was
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  Speaker 1: still shocking.
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  Speaker 2: The area looks like an alien planet.
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  Speaker 1: The wilderness in and around the tors is not the
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  Speaker 1: same kind of wilderness we think of when we think
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  Speaker 1: about going hiking in the forest or going camping or something. No,
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness in the tor Goots is primordial. It's like
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  Speaker 1: you're looking out at a place from the very beginning
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  Speaker 1: of time, like dinosaurs should be walking around this area.
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  Speaker 1: As far as Matt could see in any direction where
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  Speaker 1: these huge, jagged mountains that had been carved out of
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  Speaker 1: the earth by glaciers hundreds of thousands of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: and those same glaciers had created hundreds of waterways between
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  Speaker 1: the mountains called fiords that almost looked like blue veined fingers,
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  Speaker 1: And even from high up in the plane, Matt could
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  Speaker 1: look down and the water of these fiords were so
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  Speaker 1: clear that he could see these speckled backs of brown
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  Speaker 1: trouts swimming beneath the surface. But while this landscape was
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  Speaker 1: undoubtedly spectacularly beautiful and pristine and totally incredible, it was
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  Speaker 1: equal parts unwelcoming to people. There are no roads in
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  Speaker 1: the torn Gots, there's no camp sites, there's no facilities,
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  Speaker 1: there's no internet, there's no cell phone, and the weather
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievably harsh.
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  Speaker 2: It's freezing cold and wet most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: And then even when it's a little bit warm and
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  Speaker 1: a little bit nice there, the weather can change in
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  Speaker 1: an instant and become freezing cold and wet all over again.
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  Speaker 1: And so, as such, the handful of visitors that go
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  Speaker 1: into this area every year are expected to be one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent self reliant, because this really is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most dangerous wild regions in the world. But for Matt,
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  Speaker 1: as he looked out his window and surveyed this landscape,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't second guessing his decision to go into this
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  Speaker 1: hostile environment. No, I mean, the reason he was willing
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  Speaker 1: to fork over all that money to go on this
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  Speaker 1: trip is because he really wanted to experience extreme wilderness firsthand.
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  Speaker 2: And so finally the pilot of the floatplane.
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  Speaker 1: Came into land on this little water inlet, and then
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  Speaker 1: the pilot ferried the craft over to the beach, and
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  Speaker 1: then Matt and the seven others piled off onto land
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  Speaker 1: with all of their things.
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  Speaker 2: And then as the.
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  Speaker 1: Pilot turned around and left, the two Sierra Club trip leaders,
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  Speaker 1: a sixty one year old man named Rich Gross and
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  Speaker 1: a sixty year old woman named Marta Chase, told the
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  Speaker 1: group to pick up their things and follow them, And
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  Speaker 1: so Rich and Marta led the hikers about five hundred
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  Speaker 1: feet away from where they had just been dropped off
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  Speaker 1: up to the slightly elevated, mostly flat area that kind
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  Speaker 1: of overlooked the fjord and had this incredible view of
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  Speaker 1: all the mountains around them. Now, unlike the temporary base
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  Speaker 1: camp they had been at for the past couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: this camp.
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  Speaker 2: Was nowhere near any forests.
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  Speaker 1: They were basically on a wide open plaine that kind
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  Speaker 1: of went right up into these mountains.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very wide open where they're staying.
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  Speaker 1: And so after Rich and Marta instructed the group where
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  Speaker 1: to set up their tents. Matt and the others got
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  Speaker 1: to doing that, and then after they were all set up,
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  Speaker 1: Rich and Marda put a small electric fence around the
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  Speaker 1: perimeter of their tents to keep any nosy animals out.
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  Speaker 1: And then the group headed up a little bit higher
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  Speaker 1: on this mountain near them to take their first group photo.
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  Speaker 1: And in this photo they all look so happy and
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  Speaker 1: so excited for what's to come. And over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, their trip would go exactly to plan.
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  Speaker 1: During the daytime hours, they would hike all of their
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  Speaker 1: pre planned hiking routes all over the.
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  Speaker 2: Mountains and down near the water.
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  Speaker 1: And at night they would eat their food and drink
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  Speaker 1: fresh water from the fjord and swap stories from back home.
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  Speaker 1: But their perfect trip was about to become a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: so kind, an amazing mother, and so this Christmas I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get her something extra special to show her
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  Speaker 1: In the early evening hours of Tuesday, July twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: so two days after the group arrived in the Torngot Mountains,
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  Speaker 1: Matt and the others return from one of their hikes.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the day had been cold and rainy, but the
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  Speaker 2: group was in good spirits.
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  Speaker 1: This was their last day at this particular camping spot.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning they were going to pack up and
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  Speaker 1: head farther inland to their next camping spot. After Matt
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  Speaker 1: and the others had put their gear back inside of
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  Speaker 1: their tents, they came back out to see that Rich
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  Speaker 1: and Marta, the two trip leads had organized a special
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  Speaker 1: feast for the group to celebrate the successful beginning of
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  Speaker 1: their trip, and so the group all sat around, eating
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  Speaker 1: salami and crackers and drinking rum mixed with lemonade as
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  Speaker 1: they talked excitedly about the next couple of days and
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  Speaker 1: what they could expect. At some point during the festivities,
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  Speaker 1: Matt was tired, and so he broke away from the group.
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  Speaker 1: He climbed back inside of his tent, got inside of
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  Speaker 1: his sleeping bag, and before long he was fast asleep.
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  Speaker 1: A few hours later, around three point thirty in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: Matt suddenly woke up. He had no idea what had
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  Speaker 1: woken him up, and so for a second he just
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  Speaker 1: lay there, listening to the outside world and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of staring straight up. Now the moon was out that night,
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  Speaker 1: so there was some illumination, and as he looked straight
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  Speaker 1: up at the underside of his tent, he sees this
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  Speaker 1: huge figure move across the side of his tent and
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  Speaker 1: then stop right on top of him. And then before
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  Speaker 1: Matt's brain could process what was happening, this huge figure
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  Speaker 1: began pressing down on the fabric of Matt's tent, and
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  Speaker 1: so he's seeing his tent collapsing in on him. Matt's
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  Speaker 1: not doing anything, he's not saying anything, He's just watching
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  Speaker 1: in horror. And then suddenly the tent rips open and
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  Speaker 1: these two arms reach into the tent and they grab
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  Speaker 1: at Matt, and Matt threw his hands up in defence
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  Speaker 1: and screamed out for help. And as he did that,
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  Speaker 1: he suddenly felt this vise like grip on the top of.
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  Speaker 3: His head, and then before long he was being pulled
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  Speaker 3: out of the hole in his tent, out into the night.
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  Speaker 3: And as Matt is being dragged along on the ground,
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  Speaker 3: having no idea what's going on, he can't move.
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  Speaker 1: All he can hear is this crunching sound, which he
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  Speaker 1: would later find out was the sound of his skull
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  Speaker 1: and jaw breaking. And he started to smell this horrible
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  Speaker 1: rotten fish smell, and then he felt what felt like
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  Speaker 1: salida coming over his face. And then Matt began kind
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  Speaker 1: of trying to look around because he couldn't really move
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  Speaker 1: his head, and he noticed all he could see was
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  Speaker 1: white and it was then that Matt realized he was
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  Speaker 1: in the jaws of one of the world's most powerful
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  Speaker 1: and deadliest predators, standing ten feet tall on its hind
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  Speaker 1: legs and weighing as much as seventeen hundred pounds. The
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  Speaker 1: North American polar bear sits right on top of the
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  Speaker 1: Arctic food chain, and now this apex predator was dragging
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  Speaker 1: Matt by the skull down to the beach, where Matt
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  Speaker 1: knew he would be eaten even if Matt was still
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  Speaker 1: alive when the eating began. When the bear first ripped
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  Speaker 1: open Matt's tent and bit down on the top of
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  Speaker 1: his skull, Matt led out that scream and it actually
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  Speaker 1: woke up the entire camp and one of the first
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  Speaker 1: people to emerge from their tents to see what was
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  Speaker 1: going on was one of the trip leaders, Marta, and
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  Speaker 1: so she jumps out of her tent, and just three
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  Speaker 1: feet away from her, she sees this huge.
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  Speaker 2: Polar bear on its hind legs diving into the tent.
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  Speaker 1: To get after Matt, and so Marta instinctively yells out
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  Speaker 1: to Rich to get his flare gun, and she dove
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  Speaker 1: back into her tent to retrieve her own flare gun.
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  Speaker 1: But by the time she and Rich had both emerged
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  Speaker 1: gun in hand, this polar bear had already dragged Matt
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  Speaker 1: two hundred feet away from the camp, and by this
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  Speaker 1: point the other hikers in the group had also emerged
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  Speaker 1: from their tents, and after realizing what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: they just stood there, absolutely paralyzed with shock, staring at
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  Speaker 1: this bear dragging one of their companions down to the
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  Speaker 1: beach to be killed. Then, after Rich fired his flare
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  Speaker 1: gun generally in the direction of the bear, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of snapped the group out of their paralysis, and then
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  Speaker 1: moments later they were all screaming and banging clots and
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  Speaker 1: pans to try to terrify the bear into releasing Matt
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  Speaker 1: from its jaws. Matt couldn't hear the sounds of his
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  Speaker 1: companions calling out to try to save him, nor did.
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  Speaker 2: Matt feel any pain. He was in shock.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing going through Matt's head as he was
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  Speaker 1: being dragged along the ground to the beach was I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to die. I'm either going to die on the
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  Speaker 1: way to the beach or when I get there, then
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  Speaker 1: when the bear starts eating.
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  Speaker 2: Me, I'm gonna die.
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  Speaker 1: And when he thought about this, it was with a
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  Speaker 1: kind of eerie, calm detachment, like he wasn't sad or mad,
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  Speaker 1: it was just kind of a fact this was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. But as Matt was kind of making peace
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  Speaker 1: with his reality, Rich fired that flare gunshot, and that
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  Speaker 1: ball of chemical fire exploded basically right in front of
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  Speaker 1: the polar Bear's face. And the polar bear, who was
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  Speaker 1: startled by the flare, instinctively whipped its head to the side,
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  Speaker 1: up and then down again, and it didn't let go
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  Speaker 1: of Matt, and so Matt was whipped like a rag
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  Speaker 1: doll up and then was slammed down into the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And when Matt hit the ground, he heard the sound
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  Speaker 1: of his neck break it. But as Matt was laying there,
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  Speaker 1: the bear released him from its jaws, and then behind Matt,
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  Speaker 1: the bear turned around and began walking away, and so
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  Speaker 1: Matt could hear the sound of its big pause moving
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  Speaker 1: away from him. And suddenly Matt's thinking, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I might survive this, and so he tried to lay
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  Speaker 1: as still as he possibly could so as not to
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  Speaker 1: tracked any attention, and he began repeating in his head
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again, please bear go away,
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  Speaker 1: Please bear go away. But as if out of a
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  Speaker 1: horror movie, as Matt is laying there repeating this phrase,
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  Speaker 1: he hears the sound of this bear stopping, turning around
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  Speaker 1: and start moving back towards him.
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  Speaker 2: And so Matt's just thinking, Okay, it's going to come
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  Speaker 2: back over here. It's going to bite my head and
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  Speaker 2: that's the end.
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  Speaker 1: But luckily Rich, by this point one of the trip
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  Speaker 1: leads had run down closer to the beach, reloaded his
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  Speaker 1: flare gun, and right as this bear was going to
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  Speaker 1: bite Matt again, Rich had fired that flare and once
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  Speaker 1: again the chemical fire had kind of exploded right near
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  Speaker 1: the bear, causing it to get startled. It turned around,
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  Speaker 1: it ran off, and this time the bear did not return.
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  Speaker 1: It would turn out Rich and Marta, the two trip
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  Speaker 1: leaders from the Sierra Club, had chosen a location for
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  Speaker 1: this campsite that was so heavily trafficked by polar bears
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  Speaker 1: it was referred to as a polar bear highway. When
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  Speaker 1: all of the hikers, which included Marta and Rich, had
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  Speaker 1: been given their safety brief when they were staying in
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  Speaker 1: those plywood structures at that base camp near the runway. Well,
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  Speaker 1: part of the brief was whenever you make camp in
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  Speaker 1: the torngots, you want to be at least a quarter
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  Speaker 1: mile away from water go way inland because the polar
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  Speaker 1: bears hunt and fish and walk around right along the
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  Speaker 1: edge of these fjords. But despite all seven members of
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  Speaker 1: this Sierra Club expedition being experienced wilderness backpackers, none of
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  Speaker 1: them really appreciated just how dangerous it was to be
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  Speaker 1: camping or even hiking around in known polar bear territory,
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  Speaker 1: and so this is why they ultimately ignored the safety
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  Speaker 1: brief and set up their first camp just a couple
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  Speaker 1: hundred feet away from the water's edge. And even prior
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  Speaker 1: to the attack on Matt, when the group literally saw
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  Speaker 1: polar bears wandering around near their camp and even at
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  Speaker 1: one point had to fire their flare guns at the
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  Speaker 1: polar bears to get them to leave, the group still
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  Speaker 1: decided it was best to stay at this particular campsite.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps they believed their electric fence they had set up
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  Speaker 1: around the perimeter of their tents would protect them from
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  Speaker 1: these polar bears, but obviously that had not been the case.
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  Speaker 1: The bear that attacked Matt had been totally unaffected by
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  Speaker 1: their fence. Matt would survive this attack, but really only
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  Speaker 1: because one of the members of the expedition happened to
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  Speaker 1: be a medical doctor, and so they were able to
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  Speaker 1: stabilize Matt until help arrived. Matt's injuries were extensive. They
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: included a.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Broken skull, a broken jaw.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: He had slash marks and puncture wounds all over his
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: head and his neck, and all of those wounds got
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: horribly infected. And also his voice was permanently changed as
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: well because the bear also slashed his vocal courts. Following
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the attack on Matt, Parks Canada, which is the agency
• 17:49
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• 17:53
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• 17:57
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  Speaker 1: As for Matt, he does not make a big deal
• 18:03
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• 18:06
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• 18:08
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• 18:11
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• 18:14
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• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of twenty fourteen, so eleven months after Matt's brush with death,
• 18:22
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• 18:25
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• 18:29
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• 18:31
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