The composer Julien Gauthier during his trip to Antarctica where he created a symphony with sounds recorded in nature. His trip through the isolated region where he was in Canada had the same goals of musical creation. (Photo: © Tiphaine Ouisse / Julien Gauthier website)
Julien Gauthier, a French musician born in Canada, died after being attacked by a grizzly bear while traveling through the Northwest Territories, specifically in the small community of Tulita, which borders the Mackenzie River. The event would have occurred occurred on August 15.
Reportedly, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was alerted early that morning by the activation of a distress alarm by Camille Toscani, a scientist who accompanied the victim on his trip.
The body of the forty-year-old man was found on August 16 in the afternoon.
Location of Tulita near where the bear attack would have occurred (Image: © Google Maps / RCI)
Gauthier's musical projects
Graduated from the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris, Julien Gauthier, a French composer born in Canada where he lived until he was 19 years old, was following an atypical artistic career. Attracted by the most unusual or extreme places, in 2016 he stayed for 5 months in the Kerguelen Islands, in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands one of the most isolated places on the planet.
From this experience, he composed a symphony, Symphonie Australe, created by the Symphony Orchestra of Brittany, as well as an album of sound creations and sound landscapes, Unprecedented Symphonia. TAAF also issued a postal stamp to commemorate the premiere of its symphony.
(Postage stamp: © Groupe La Poste)
In Canada, the challenge of going down the Mackenzie River had been proposed for approximately 1500 km, from Fort Providence to Inuvik, In about 30 days.
Throughout this trip, he recorded sounds of nature and animals and, finally, made them an artistic creation for a Parisian exhibition.
A similar project, but in southern lands it had resulted in a series of audio and video recordings with penguins, walruses and on the sea route to the French territories in Antarctica.
Another recent victim had more luck
On July 30, Colin Dowler He was exploring trails on his mountain bike in an isolated area in the British Columbia forest, about seven miles from a nearby logging camp when he was attacked by a grizzly bear.
After going down one of the hills towards the logging road, he saw a large male brown bear, who was walking in his direction.
Colin Dowler stabbed a grizzly bear in the neck and then rode his mountain bike almost seven kilometers to save himself. (Jon Hernandez / CBC)
Concerned about not making sudden movements, Dowler watched nervously as the bear approached. He had a hiking stick in one hand and tried to push it away with a push.
But the bear kept moving forward and snatched the mountain bike from Dowler.
A gift that brought you luck
A few days before the attack, Collin Dowler's father gave him a folding knife and having it with him that day was what saved his life.
(Image: © CBC News)
Dowler believes that everything seemed to develop in slow motion. He thought of playing dead when the bear bit his arm, foot and thigh.
The bear kept his eyes on Dowler as he cut off one of the sleeves of his shirt and wrapped it around his leg.
He managed to crawl on his mountain bike and get on it. With a badly injured leg, he began pedaling until he reached the logging camp where the worker's doctor saved his life.
Occasionally, grizzlies aggression is directed at humans. In the National Parks of Canada, about 1 visitor in every 2 million is injured by a brown bear, as it is also known. (Photo: © THE CANADIAN PRESS / Jacques Boissinot)
Bears seem closer to populated areas
Bear attacks that end in fatalities are rare, but encounters are less and less.
This weekend a family of grizzly bears showed up at a residence in Whitecourt, 100 kilometers from Edmonton in Alberta. The situation was terrifying for Marjie Whitehead, owner of the house.
The resident was watering the plants in her greenhouse just after noon on Saturday when she and her two dogs discovered three brown bears on their property near Whitecourt.
This is the video she filmed of the event:
Bear warnings in Alberta National Park
Not far from Edmonton, in Calgary, Alberta is the Fish Creek National Park There, the Alberta Parks Agency issued the August 17th a warning warning the public that multiple bears have been feeding in the area south of Canyon Meadows.
The warning covers most of the trails and daytime use areas of the park.
The notice asks the public to report all bear sightings by calling 403-591-7755.
To avoid an encounter, Alberta Parks advises users of Fish Creek Park to make a lot of noise, travel in groups, keep pets on a leash and be alert to the signs of the presence of bears. These signs may include animal tracks, bear droppings, scratches on trees and strands of hair.
Alberta Parks also advises carrying bear spray and knowing how to use it. Here you can see a video (in English) of how to use them:
A walk that turned into a nightmare
What began as an outdoor trip quickly became a serious medical emergency for a group of four experienced adventurers
The four were attacked by a black bear while they slept in their tent last July 29 at the edge of a river about 240 kilometers from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the extreme east of Canada.
One of the travelers, Francine Grondin, It was bit in the leg by the animal.
Francine Grondin on the plane that took her to the hospital after the attack that happened when she was at her tent in her camp. (Photo: Courtesy of witnesses to CBC News)
«Screaming didn't work. The bear approached them, ”said his friend Yves Favreau, describing what happened.
The couple formed by Francine Grondin and Robert Gagnon He has been doing canoe trips for the past 40 years, they have been rowing about 20,000 kilometers.
They were joined by his friends Favreau, who is from Montreal, and David Ayotte, a professor from the city of St. John's, capital of the province.
The black bear disappeared in the forest, but did not move far from the camp.
RCI / CBC News / Radio-Canada / Julien Gauthier website / Marjie Whitehead facebook page
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