Pure Nickel Inc. employee, 20, relives how she survived attack by Alaska grizzly bear by playing dead as it dragged her for twenty feet over rocks

• Julia Stafford survived the attack with only minor injuries, but will need surgery to repair a broken hand
• The quick-thinking college student played dead after the bear knocked her over
• Sunday attack comes only two days after backpacker Richard White was eaten by a bear in Denali National Park and Preserve

   

   

   

A Seattle woman was attacked and dragged 20 feet by a grizzly bear while working for a Canadian mining company in Alaska – but survived with minor only injuries.

Julia Stafford, 20, a University of British Columbia student, smartly played dead after the bear knocked her – and a male colleague – over and on to the ground.

‘It bit my hand and kind of dragged me 20 feet over the rocks and just left me,’ Stafford told The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner from her hospital bed while ironically holding – you guessed it – a teddy bear.

‘I was worried I was going to die briefly, but it was fine once she let me go and ran away…It happened really quick.’