More than 20 years after the horrifying death of Timothy “Grizzly Man” Treadwell, a few young bear fanatics are returning to the wild — not to commune with the grizzlies, as famously explored in Werner Herzog’s stomach-churning 2005 documentary, but to chase online clout.
A clip circulating on Reddit shows a heart-pounding moment from a nearly 12-hour livestream filmed in the wilderness of Alaska. In the video, the popular streamers Maya Higa and FaZe Adapt sit together on a log, chatting nonchalantly as a massive grizzly bear lumbers toward them.
“I think this is the same one that came over here earlier,” Higa says.
Having accepted that it’s “too late to move” without provoking the bear, as they muse in the video, the streamers can only watch as the creature charges full-sprint into the adjacent river to snag a fish.
