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"I guess I feel lucky," Minish said of his encounter with the bear, after someone told him it’s better than being dead.

Allen Minish was alone and surveying land for a real estate agent in a wooded, remote part of Alaska, putting some numbers into his GPS unit when he looked up and saw a large brown bear walking about 30 feet away.

Minish, 61, has had his share of bear encounters over the 40 years he’s lived in Alaska, but nothing like this.

“I guess I feel lucky,” Minish said of his encounter with the bear, after someone told him it’s better than being dead.

The mauling left Minish with a crushed jaw, a puncture wound in his scalp so deep the doctor told him he could see bone, lacerations and many stitches after a 4½-hour surgery.