What are the Chances of Dying in Glacier National Park?
So really, what are the chances of dying in Glacier? What about the bears? I submit to you we need to be less concerned about the bears and more cognizant of the human factor of good decision making and using our brains. Statistically, a visitor has VERY low risk of meeting their demise while visiting Glacier National Park. For all of the publicity that Ursus arctos horribilis receives grizzly bears or bears in general rank only as 7th on the list of total numbers of deaths in Glacier. It certainly must be terrifying to be chewed on by an animal that weighs 3 to 4 times what a human does and worse yet is the possibility of becoming grizzly scat. Between 1913 and 1995 nine people lost their lives in Glacier National Park due to predation by a bear. Four of the victims were visitors the other five were park employees. This is probably because employees statistically spend more time over all on the trails than the visitors. Therefore their chances of encountering a bear are higher. For mo
