Grizzly attacks UBC student prospecting in Alaska

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Grizzly attacks UBC student prospecting in Alaska

一名就读卑诗大学（UBC）的女学生，26日与另一名矿业公司的同事，在阿拉斯加采集矿石标本时，惨遭一只迎面而来的灰熊攻击，她被咬伤手部后，还被灰熊拖行约20呎，所幸送医急救后没有生命危险，现仍留院观察。

　　现年20岁的女大生丝塔芙（Julia Stafford）丝塔芙和同事惊见熊踪后，试图步行朝着山丘方向躲避，但是该头灰熊锲而不捨一路狂追，两人来不及从背包里拿出防熊喷雾剂，因此决定装死，不料未能矇骗过关，丝塔芙被灰熊咬伤手部及刮伤背部，并被拖行约20呎后，凶勐灰熊才掉头走开。

　　丝塔芙送医治疗后已无大碍，但仍留院观察。经历生死一瞬间的她表示，当初以为自己会被灰熊咬死，生命也就此结束。

　　大难不死的丝塔芙指出，她预计9月返回温哥华，继续在卑大的地质学系攻读第三年的课程。

Grizzly attacks UBC student prospecting in Alaska

A UBC student is recovering in hospital in Alaska after she was attacked by a grizzly bear while prospecting in the wilderness on Sunday.

Julia Stafford, 20, and a colleague were collecting rock samples in a foggy ravine near Tangle Lakes when the bear emerged from the mist with two cubs, she told CBC News from her hospital bed in Fairbanks.

"We decided we'd walk uphill to get away from it, and then the bear saw us and started walking towards us and then started running towards us," she said.

The pair had bear spray in their backpacks but had no chance to get it out before the bear charged and was on top of them. The pair then tried to play dead, but the sow attacked Stafford.

"She bit my hand and dragged me 20 feet and then let go," said Stafford, who said she did think for a moment that she might die before the attack ended.

The former Seattle resident is being treated for the bite to her hand and scratches on her back, but still plans to start her third year of geology studies at UBC this September. She was working for Pure Nickel Inc., a Canadian company based in Ontario.

The attack came just two days after a lone hiker in Denali National Park was eaten by a grizzly bear, the first fatal bear mauling in the park’s 95-year history.