Man found after SOS scrawled on roof of remote shack as bear laid siege for a week
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mirror.co.ukA man was rescued in the Alaskan wilderness after fending off a bear attack every night for a whole week. Emergency crews spotted the exhausted and stricken man waving into the air with an SOS sign planted on top of a shack nearby.
On rescuing him he was found to have suffered bruising on his torso and a leg injury and said he had been repeatedly harassed by a bear every night for a week.
The Coast Guard said the rescue happened on July 16 as a helicopter flew from Kotzebue to Nome. His friends had reported him missing after he failed to return home to Nome, which is on the western coast of Alaska.
The New York Times reports that the man was found to be sleep-deprived and nearly out of ammunition during the bear siege. One of the pilots
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