[at-l] Young Hiker Death---

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

SANDWICH, N.H. - A 13-year-old boy attending a camp for underprivileged
children collapsed and died after being frightened by a bear during a hike,
authorities said Wednesday. 

Antonio Hansell of Boston and a counselor from Camp Hale (search) came
across the bear twice Tuesday afternoon on Mount Doublehead (search), the
state Fish and Game Department said. Officials said the two ran from the
bear at the first encounter; they saw the bear a second time while trying to
retrieve Antonio's lost sneaker and also ran. The bear did not chase them.

When word reached Fish and Game Sgt. James Goss that Antonio was scared and
did not want to continue hiking, Goss spoke to him by cell phone and judged
he was having trouble breathing.

The boy collapsed, and was neither breathing nor had a pulse when rescuers
reached him about two hours later, a half-mile from the end of their
approximately 6-mile hike, the department said in a statement. He was
pronounced dead at a hospital.

An autopsy was being conducted Wednesday. Goss said he did not believe the
boy had any medical problems.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,128014,00.html


-----Original Message-----
From: at-l-bounces@backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-bounces@backcountry.net] On
Behalf Of Leslie Booher
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 14:13
To: at-l@backcountry.net
Subject: [at-l] Young Hiker Death---

Does anyone know anything about the young hiker who died in New Hampshire
from the fright of seeing a bear?  The dateline on the blurb in the
Richmond, VA, paper was Sandwich, NH.  It seems that a group of
underprivileged kids were on a 6 mile hike when they saw a bear twice.  It
was described as being the same bear, but I don't know how they knew.  The
child collapsed a half mile before the end of the hike and was pronounced
dead at a hospital.  I don't remember them saying that it was a heart
attack, but how can they determine that fright caused the kid to die?  It's
all very mysterious.  Anyone up that way have any more info?  anklebear
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