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In the Talkeetna Mountains, Samuel Gottsegen, 17, of Denver and six other members of the National Outdoor Leadership School were viciously attacked by a grizzly bear on Saturday.

STORY: OMG! Teens Mauled By Grizzly Bear In Alaska! (PHOTOS)

As Reported By ABC News: 

“I was looking for an adventure,” said Samuel Gottsegen, the Denver teenager who survived a grizzly bear attack in the Alaska this weekend. His adventure came with bite marks in his head and a pierced lung.

Gottsegen, 17, took part in the National Outdoor Leadership School student expedition with 13 other students and three instructors. On the last leg of the trip, seven students remained in what NOLS spokesperson Bruce Palmer describes as a “self-sufficiency field base experience.”

After dinner, the seven students went hiking. They were lining up in a single file to cross a river in the Alaskan backcountry near Chulitna, about 120 miles north of Anchorage, according to ABC affiliate KMGH.

“We turned this corner and the person in front started screaming and yelling bear, and we all turned and ran,” he told ABC News. 

SOURCE: ABC News

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Noah Allaire, left, of Albuquerque, N.M. and Sam Melman discuss surviving a bear attack during a news conference in Palmer, Alaska, on Monday, July 25, 2011.

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Shane Garlock, left, and Sam Boas, of Westport, Conn., discuss surviving a bear attack during a news conference in Palmer, Alaska Monday July 25, 2011.

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Samuel Gottsegen, 17, recounts his experiences as one of the victims of a bear attack that occurred Saturday evening near Talkeenta, Alaska, as he recovers in an Anchorage, Alaska hospital on Monday July 25, 2011.

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Samuel Gottsegen, 17, recounts his experiences as one of the victims of a bear attack that occurred Saturday evening near Talkeenta, Alaska, as he recovers in an Anchorage, Alaska hospital on Monday July 25, 2011.

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Samuel Gottsegen, 17, recounts his experiences as one of the victims of a bear attack that occurred Saturday evening near Talkeenta, Alaska, as he recovers in an Anchorage, Alaska hospital on Monday, July 25, 2011.

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Samuel Gottsegen, 17, recounts his experiences as one of the victims of a bear attack that occurred Saturday evening near Talkeenta, Alaska, as he recovers in an Anchorage, Alaska hospital on Monday, July 25, 2011.