The Twenty-Ninth Day

Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra

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The Twenty-Ninth Day

Auteur(s): Alex Messenger

Narrateur(s): Alex Messenger

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A 600-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a 17-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive.

This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts 17-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border.

The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.

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What a great audiobook. The author, Alex Messenger, narrates it himself. He has such a calm and mesmerizing voice, it was a pleasure to listen to him.

This is the story of Alex Messenger, who - at the age of 17 in 2005 - went on a six-week canoe trip in the Yukon and was attacked by a grizzly bear on the 29th day.

For the first half of the book he takes us through the first four weeks of his canoeing trip. Initially, I thought “seriously, we need to hear about these entire four weeks?” But it’s actually important. Messenger sets the scene perfectly, taking us along with him on this insightful journey. He describes the landscape, flora and fauna of northern Canada. The wilderness there is largely untouched by most except indigenous people. His mesmerizing voice lulls you into a dreamy state as he helps you smell the air and water and makes you feel like you’re with him in the tent or canoe. It is calm, peaceful, beautiful, zen.

So when he is attacked by the grizzly bear, the scene is all the more jarring in its intensity. How does such violence exist in such calm beauty? Messenger makes you feel the bear’s claws, teeth and power. It’s a horrifying scene that had me grimacing in imagined pain and holding my breath at times.

Messenger continues after the bear scene, his voice more intense, less dreamy, definitely ‘in the moment’ as he describes his injuries, the improvised medical care by his teammates and his eventual evacuation by helicopter and subsequent events.

I love survival stories and Messenger’s was excellent. I was impressed by his bravery and resilience during this life-changing event. I appreciated that it wasn’t overly sentimental. I think it was a story perfectly told.

Recommended for people who enjoy wilderness/ survival stories.