Tyler Johnson, 32, was mauled by a bear on the Kenai Peninsula on Saturday. CNN “We startled her, or him…and it came charging at my dad,” he said of the brown bear.

Tyler Johnson, 32, was hiking off-trail Saturday on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska on a hunting trip with his father when they encountered a brown bear.

Tyler and Chris Johnson on a father-son hunt in 2019. Photo by Tyler Johnson / Facebook Tyler Johnson/Facebook “I suspect the bear tried to paw me, which I don’t remember, but I think it ...