You know that lady who threw her iPhone at the bear? Seems silly and petty after reading about Hugh Glass. In 1823 Glass was on a fur trapping expedition when he surprised a mother Grizzly and her two cubs. The bear attacked, and Glass fought back with his knife. He woke up to find that his companions had covered him with a shroud, taken his gear, and left him as dead.

Glass then set his own broken leg, and thinking it too unsafe to follow the Grand River due to Native Americans in the area, he crawled overland for 6-weeks to the Cheyenne River. On the way he stopped to let maggots eat the dead flesh off his leg to prevent gangrene. Rough. At the Cheyenne River he fashioned a crude craft and floated downriver to Fort Kiowa, 200 miles from where he’d been left.

There was a 1971 movie made about his overland trek to the fort, but I’m not sure if it covers what he said to his friends who’d left him for dead. That would have pretty awkward all around.