Hugh Glass was your quintessential tough guy . An Irishman take by the Pawnee mass around the Missouri River , Glass spend eld roughing the high sea as a Panama ( or , some say , a pirate ) before joining a stripe of pelt trappers in the summer of 1823 . He was determined to research the Western frontier , though he sleep with it ’d be elusive . But he had no idea the risky venture would make him the star of one of former America ’s greatest survival legends .
One day , while hound along the Grand River , Glass crossed paths with a female parent grizzly who was n’t very happy to see him and beam him scurrying up a tree . The bear followed and criticize him to the shit with a swipe of her mitt , then chomped on his head , claw his back , and bit a chunk out of his hindquarters . Glass looked like a toast , but incredibly , he managed to fight back and killed the bear with a knife . When his expedition sidekick plant him , he was pinned beneath the bear ’s huge organic structure , injured and wheezing . Certain Glass was done for , the chemical group ’s loss leader ordered two men to stay behind and sink him while the expedition moved on . The two begin moil Glass ’s grave and waited for him to conk . And wait . And waited .
For the next six days , a comatose but stubborn Glass kept on ventilation . Afraid of being left behind themselves , his companions abandoned him , take his arm , equipment , and food . As the story pass away , when the badly maim mountain humankind woke from his stupor , he dragged himself to a spring to toast . notice that his wounds were infected , he found a rotting log , set on it , and lease maggots eat and clean his pus pulp . Then he readjust his broken leg and started crawling on his belly toward civilization . Dodging buffalo stampede and unfriendly Indians , he eat insects , Snake River , and meat he found in the filth . More than two months later , having crawled , hobble , and raft nearly 200 miles , Glass stumbled into Fort Kiowa in South Dakota and immediately became a renown . ( He also allegedly tried to exact revenge on the manpower who desolate him , but ultimately decided tospare them . ) If surviving all that is n’t reward enough , this year , he ’s getting the full folk - torpedo treatment — having his battle immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming movieThe Revenant . you’re able to watch the preview below .
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