Hikers face grizzly bear encounter in Alaska – Screengrab Social Media/X

They kept their cool, and that just might have saved their lives.

Hiking is a great pastime and exercise, but it can also be dangerous, depending on where you are.

One of the most terrifying things that can befall hikers is to bump into a bear – and worse, a grizzly bear.

For three hikers in an Alaskan trail, the outdoor event turned into a horrific test of survival after their heart-pounding encounter with a grizzly bear.

🇺🇸 | Un grupo de excursionistas se mantuvo notablemente calmado durante un encuentro cercano con un oso grizzly en un sendero estrecho de Alaska, hablando suavemente mientras el oso pasaba pacíficamente. pic.twitter.com/UWDaXQo0lT

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The New York Post reported:

“The hikers rounded a corner and found themselves face-to-face with the bear, nicknamed ‘Scuba Sue’, while it was hunting for salmon along a narrow trail at the Anan Creek Wildlife Observatory in southeast Alaska.

Speaking on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’, the trio detailed how they relied on crucial park ranger safety protocols to stay calm after finding themselves trapped on the path.

’We’d actually been watching bears, hoping that there were salmon coming up the river. We saw about four or five bears earlier. Those were black bears. And then coming back on the trail, we had an unexpected encounter’, Dr. Michelle Lynn Thaller said. ‘Right around the corner came this grizzly bear’.”

AN UN-BEAR-ABLY CLOSE CALL: These hikers came face-to-face with a grizzly on an Alaskan trail—and lived to tell the “tail”! 🐻@CharlesHurt gets the scoop on what was running through their minds during the heart-pounding encounter caught on camera. pic.twitter.com/07O7BUrXO1

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Footage of the encounter shows the bear getting much closer than anyone would have wanted.

The group calmly talked to the bear, slowly backed away and allowed the animal to pass on the path.

“‘Oh, [I] was definitely terrified. And then we remembered what the rangers told us, which was what you said, to be big, talk to the bear, keep it calm and get out of its way’, hiker Tanya Thompson said.”

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