Day 29. The Story of a Boy Who Survived a Grizzly Attack

A 600-mile journey, canoeing through the uninhabited expanses of Canada – a true dream for a seventeen-year-old boy, but after a grizzly bear attack, his main task became to stay alive. Before you is a true survival story in the wild, a tale of how an encounter with a grizzly bear nearly cost seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger his life during a canoeing trip across the rivers and lakes of the Canadian tundra. The reader will follow Alex and his five companions as they head north and overcome exhausting rapids in the midst of breathtaking nature. The trek had already lasted twenty-nine days when Alex, having strayed from his buddies, was attacked by a northern grizzly. Coming to, the teenager realizes that the summer adventure has turned into a fight for survival. In the following hours and days, Alex and his companions tend to his injuries and rely solely on their resilience, ingenuity, and perseverance to reach a distant village a thousand miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border to seek help. This gripping true story of unrestrained, raging waters, ferocious bears, large fish, and vividly depicted wilderness kept me engrossed until the late hours of the night, making me turn the pages further and further! Dean King, New York Times bestselling author of Skeletons of the Sahara.