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2014年,57歲的西婭帶著狗在阿拉斯加科爾多瓦的步道爬山,那個地區幾乎沒有人煙。
就在登山到一半之際,她的狗突然驚慌失措地往回逃跑。
原來狗的後頭,一隻183到213公分之間的大熊緊追在後,熊發現她們的蹤跡,懷著敵意襲擊。
惡熊襲擊西婭,狠咬了七口,最後把她丟在路邊等死。
但是西婭竟然意志力驚人。她滿身是傷,拖著身體行走長達1.6公里,回到卡車上。
之後直升機將她載到安克拉治的醫院進行救治。
西婭說她當時也預想到,也許她撐不過這一關,但是她告訴自己「走就對了」。結果她達成了,現在這位大自然熱愛者可以在履歷加上「跟熊搏鬥」的經歷了。
英文原文:
57-year-old Alaskan Thea Thomas was hiking with her dogs along the Heney Ridge Trail in Cordova, a place that’s pretty much people-free.
All of a sudden, her dogs ran back to her from where they’d been playing, but the dogs were no longer in the mood to play
Hot on the dogs’ heels was a 6 or 7 foot tall bear who for some reason found the hiker a threat, and attacked.
Taking as many as 7 bites out of Ms. Thomas, the bear finally left her for dead, but Thea Thomas decided to die another day. She bravely limped her way well over a mile back to her truck,before driving into town where she was then airlifted to a hospital in Anchorage.
Thomas says she did of course contemplate the idea that she might not make it, but she told herself ‘just keep walking.’ She made it, and now this tough wilderness lover can add ‘bear fighter’ to her resume.