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...DIED. TIMOTHY TREADWELL, 46, self-taught bear expert and wildlife advocate, and AMIE HUGUENARD, 37, after being attacked by a brown bear; in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Treadwell, a former drug addict, wrote Among Grizzlies about his experiences in the wild and appeared on TV shows such as the Late Show with David Letterman. The Anchorage Daily News reported some of Treadwell's last words to his girlfriend, Huguenard, which were caught on their video camera: "Get out here. I'm getting killed...
...Mount Katmai, in Alaska's remote Aleutian Range, belched a 15-mile flood of lava. There were no known fatalities, but it was the largest blast in North American history-ten times the magnitude of the one at Mount St. Helens...
...Tours. A less arduous expedition offered by Wien Air Alaska flies vacationers to Katmai and its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an awesome volcanic area where U.S. astronauts trained for moon landings. A three-day outing for $250 combines a stay at Katmai's resort hotel with hikes into a wilderness hundreds of miles from other human habitation. And there are organized dogsled trips: Anchorage's Denali's Dog Tours offers four days from Mount McKinley Park headquarters into Toklat Lake...
...pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...
...seaplane landed on the lake inside the crater. Sometimes he has traveled alone, visiting missions, mushing 1,600 mi. with only frozen beans for food. He was the first man to reach the top of Shishaldin Volcano on Unimak Island, the first to make a winter ascent of towering Katmai. "Gosh," he once chuckled to a newshawk, "all the rest of these exploring babies are glad enough if they make one 'first,' and here I am with three...