Following on from our lesson looking at people we admire and our famous Trentino, Giorgio Graffer, I'd like to invite all of us to post a short comment about someone that you really admire. It could be anyone; your faily, a historical figure, an ex-school mate or someone famous. Just let us know a bit about them and why it is you like them.
I'm looking forward to reading your ideas!
Seth.
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It's not easy to write about an idol, because I think no one can be an hero like your father or your mother: they care you, they help you every day.
But I think this is something too private and so I'll write about a person that accompanies my life since I was a teenager, althoug I had never see him.
I speak about an american songwriter, Bruce Springsteen. For me he is not only a great singer, but an “added teacher” and something like a life inspiration. I think his songs are so intense and rich of teachings for the life. And than his concert are so funny ang give you an incredible “boost”.
I find always a right text for my mood: when I'm tired, when I'm sad, when I'm full of energy.
ciao Daniele
here is some note about an incredible man I have talked yo yesterday, discovering a true friend of nature.
Charlie Russel, the Grizzly man
This is the brief story of Charlie Russel, a Canadian-born man who, at the age of 67, is the main character in "The Edge of Eden: living with Grizzlies", an original film which has been watched by many people in the 56th Trento Filmfestival mountain exploration adventure.
Charlie joined yesterday a public debate in Trento about bears that, as you know, you can also meet on our mountains thanks to a resettlement project. He told us his story and explained us his secrets of an extraordinary life with Grizzlies in the Wild, in Kamchatka peninsula. He spent eight years with them, helping orphan cubs to learn to survive in the Wild, feeding them with milk, pine nuts and sunflower seeds.
Russel picked up the cubs from a Zoo whose director had no money or food for them, and built a cube house near his house, in the the hearth of a wild sanctuary in Kamchatka, protecting the area with electric fence all around. Charlie began to show them how fishing in the rivers and in the lakes of the area, where almost 400 Grizzlies live. Month after month, the cubs increased their size and, in the same way, they increased their desire of independence. At the end of his experience, cubs found their way in the wild, although Charlie rescued them when they dangerously chose an isolated isle at the centre of a lake, with a large number of great bears all around.
Russel hadn't any problems with Grizzlies: every day he went out of the area with his cubs, as a mother, protecting them from great bears just with his voice, his perseverance and his bravery. He didn't suffer any aggression or damage, and he believes that wild bears, with no contact with humans, are not particularly dangerous. But danger exists, of course, and sometimes Russel had to protect his cubs put himself between the great bears and the cubs.
The film tells us this incredible story, and Charlie explain us how Grizzlies are sofisticated animals, answering himself where could they go in the future, under the human pressure. In the last 100 years, 97 humans have been killed by Grizzlies, and 597 seriously injured; in the same period, more than 200.000 Grizzlies have been killed by people. Grizzlies can be very dangerous for people, especially when they are attracted by food in the villages, but Charlie believes that we have to change our behaviour, which is based, first of all, on mythology and fear.
I do not know if the Russel's suggest could be a good balanced way to approach the problem; in any case his film is an interesting point of view, although he is not a biologist. But his whole life is a genuine research, as we can understand watching his incredible film.
Ciao,
Fabrizio
Hi Daniele and Fabrizio,
Thanks both of you for your great descriptions of the people you admire. You have both made a great effort and I really appreciate it! :-)
Daniele, for some reason I'm surprised. For some reason I'd never have guessed that you were a rock fan. Somehow you seem too calm and cool to be into the sort of music Bruce Springsteen writes. I can see the attraction though. Bruce plays some good tunes, with some really good messages. I never really got into Springsteen that much, but I do really like his new singles. A colleague of mine saw him play last year too. She is also crazy about Springsteen and talked about the concert for days afterwards. She even managed to get in early and get a seat right at the front of the concert! Have you ever tried to go to a concert? Would you like to go, or do you think it might spoil the mystique of Bruce for you a bit?
Fabrizio, thanks too for the great, in-depth article about the Grizzly Man, Charlie Russell. I read just a about him in the paper (I presume in the article that you wrote!) and he seems quite incredible. I'm really glad to have been able to read more about him now, so thanks for writing this here :-) Do you know if Charlie ever got attacked by his bear cubs himself? It seems like such an impossible story to stay with bear cubs and never get hurt, it's just amazing! What was Charlie like as a person? Did he seems like a "normal, everyday guy" or was there something unique about him now that he's spent so long in the wild with animals?
I look forward to reading both of your answers soon. Thanks again for some great work guys,
Seth.
Here I am again, trying to add something about the incredible story of Grizzly man Charlie Russel. Sorry, first of all, because I am late. You asked me if Charlie ever got attacked by his bear cubs himself. According to his film, Charlie has never been attacked by the cubs. The relationship between the little bears and Russel was like a relationship between mother and children: the cubs always recognized him as a true mother, following him everywhere, looking for food and water or, more simply, obeying him when he decided to close them in a little house in the centre of the camp for the night, protecting them from dangers.
The second answer. What was Charlie like as a person? Did he seems like a "normal, everyday guy" or was there something unique? More or less, in my opinion Charlie Russel is a classic good man, a normal "guy", but with an unusual, deep experience of wild life, animals and wilderness. He probably learnt a lot travelling and hiking in the open, great spaces of nature in his country, Canada. In the beginning, he became a sort of naturalist thank of his father and his brother: when Charlie was young, he decided to film Grizzlies, and he realised an interesting and genuine film. One of these days I'll probably try to write him, asking for news about the story of the last two cubs.
Fabrizio
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