
ALT The Grizzly Truth In 2005, Timothy Treadwell left Alaskan lore and entered eternity with the release of Grizzly Man, a Werner Herzog-helmed documentary that chronicled the conservationist’s life and gruesome death in Katmai National Park and Preserve. Eighteen years after the film’s release, it seems like every backpacker and adventure traveler in the world knows the plot. Well, every backpacker but one: In a staff meeting earlier this year, our assistant editor and resident Gen Z’er Emma Veidt confessed that she had never seen Grizzly Man before, and had only a loose idea of what it was about. We couldn’t let an opportunity like that pass. We set up a showing and recruited biologist Wesley Larson to watch with her. Wes isn’t just any run-of-



















