A hiker who was lost in a remote Alaska national park was rescued last week after wildlife fans tuning into a live feed from a bear camera captured the distressed man on the screen mouthing the words “Help me.”
The video shared by Explore.org, a multimedia company that operates web cameras for the National Park Service and other entities worldwide, shows the haggard-looking trekker trudging through a thick fog on Dumpling Mountain in Katmai National Park last Tuesday.
As he passes by a camera installed to capture the park’s world-famous brown bears, the unshaven, sopping-wet traveler looks directly into the lens and mouths the words “Help me” and “Lost.”
A handful of viewers watching the feed at that time left comments in an Explore.org chat room alerting the company that there was someone in distress on the rain-swept trail.
The Park Service was then swiftly notified of the emergency situation.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/11/online-bear-watching-camera-helps-rescue-lost-alaska-hiker/
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