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Camp in the Alaskan wilderness
Photo: United States Coast Guard
The case sounds a bit like the low-budget sequel to the Hollywood film "The Revenant" with Leonardo DiCaprio.
In the Alaskan wilderness, a man was apparently followed for a week by a bear who had previously attacked him.
With a lot of luck, a coast guard team discovered the injured person from a helicopter, the authorities said.
During the flight between the cities of Kotzebue and Nome in the remote northwest of Alaska, the man was spotted in a mining camp last Friday - thanks to "an SOS sign above a hut."
At first the crew only saw the sign, but then discovered the desperately waving missing person on another overflight.
The helicopter had changed course because of the weather and so happened to fly over the extremely remote camp.
The forces found the man with injuries to his leg and upper body and took him to the hospital in Nome.
According to the injured party, the wounds were caused by a bear attack.
But there is no mortal danger.
After the attack, the bear kept coming back to the camp at night for a whole week and followed the man.
Friends of the man had reported him missing after he failed to return to Nome.
Bear attacks are very rare
"We don't usually see people in the wild," the helicopter's co-pilot, AJ Hammac, told the New York Times.
After landing, the exhausted man fell on his knees.
"He definitely looked like he'd been out there for a while," said Hammac.
The US state of Alaska is sparsely populated and best known for its untouched nature.
It is home to black, polar and brown bears, including the Kodiak bear, considered one of the largest in the world.
Bear sightings are not uncommon in Alaska, but attacks on humans are rare.
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