A man on a hunting expedition in a remote Alaska park was killed by a grizzly bear last weekend. The attack took place in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The man was identified Thursday by park officials as Austin Pfeiffer, a 22-year-old man from Ohio.
Pfeiffer's death late Sunday is the first recorded fatal bear attack in the park since it was established in 1980, the park said in a statement.
From the Associated Press:
Park spokesperson Jan Maslen, said in an email that officials were not releasing his hometown at the family's request. Pfeiffer was hunting with a friend and they were salvaging meat from a moose they killed a day earlier when the attack occurred, the statement said.
Read more at the Associated Press: Park identifies hunter killed by bear in Alaska as Ohio man
