Night of the Grizzlies: The classic account of the Glacier National Park mauling that killed two young women

For fifty-seven years, the grizzly bears of Glacier National Park had never killed a human being.

That ended on the night of August 12, 1967.

In the dark hours before dawn, in two separate locations miles apart, two grizzly bears attacked two young women sleeping at backcountry campsites. Julie Helgeson, nineteen, a seasonal park employee from Minnesota, was dragged from her sleeping bag near Granite Park Chalet and mauled while her companion survived. Michele Koons, also nineteen, was attack...