Alex Messenger

Author of The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra. Marketer, Photographer & Author.

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

I’ll be talking about my bear attack soon on @BBCNews with @lauramcghie_ check it out on the airwaves in the UK or online on their live stream! @BlackstoneAudio #survival

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

I love when my story and book inspire people to get outside:

[DavidB @CGDavidB]

@AMessengerPhoto Just finished your book. Damn. Wow. My god, dude. Prose was excellent and visceral; I felt I was right there. One of the best books in recent memory. Incredible work. Unironically makes me miss the outdoors. Bravo.

[Philip Turner @philipsturner]

Thrilled that the @guardian has profiled my agency client @AMessengerPhoto, author of "The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra" (@BlackstoneAudio, 2019). Great photo of Alex by @nateryanphoto. #survivalstories #wilderness https://t.co/xS1A7I9yJc

[Blackstone Publishing @BlackstoneAudio]

This grizzly article just gave us the scoop! Check out the @guardian 's recent feature on @AMessengerPhoto, author of #THETWENTYNINTHDAY ! The interview chronicles Alex's harrowing encounter with a 600lb grizzly bear & more!📰 https://t.co/D7WTvlO0Wm
🐻👉https://t.co/oPQUCBGncp

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

I was lucky enough to work with the good folks at the @guardian for a write up on what it was like to survive my bear attack.
Check out the amazing piece at the link in my bio.
Words: @elle_hunt
Photos: @nateryanphoto https://t.co/8FqOofy3uH

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

It’s runoff season. Adopt your drain, don’t dump into the storm sewer and help keep all that extra stuff out of our waterways.
Here’s where the swill from a water main break met the Great Lake just below Leif Erikson park in Duluth a few years back. https://t.co/bdAtJgt7d3

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Curtains of aurora borealis dance over Ellingson Island, while Split Rock Lighthouse glows in the background. As this amazing display of northern lights continued through the night, I wondered if it would stop, sputter out as it often does, but it was he… https://t.co/JDgfJVxKYT

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Feels like those warm dock days might not be too far off. https://t.co/HTd6zuHxIS

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Feeling a bit tilty after a late night punt up the shore to get out from under the cloud cover. The bet was worth it and I was treated to some spectacular lights in Two Harbors and Split Rock that I somehow had nearly all to myself. I could have kept goi… https://t.co/ZFIqVTc6rI

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Nothing quite like a good scavenger hunt!
The good folks @frostriver1910 put on an awesome one this week in Duluth for Earth Week, and it did not disappoint. Each day they shared a clue to find their Not-so-Plain-O-Box. After piecing some together, and … https://t.co/sOy84VMRmw

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Auroras dance over Skyline Parkway. Thursday’s auroras we’re spectacular. Despite having a small kit and no spare batteries I did have tripod and camera and was able to get out for the tail end of the show. It was still dancing despite the lights of town… https://t.co/W4xJSACvNa

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

All set up for the last day at @canoecopia — I’ll be giving a talk at 12:30 in the Algonquin room and hanging out with the good folks from @savethebwca before and after. If you’re at the show, stop on by! https://t.co/RTojny8NXR

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

I’m at @canoecopia this weekend in Madison, WI! I’ll be around the show and giving a presentation Sunday at 12:30. If you’re at the show, I hope to see you around! #canoecopia https://t.co/ZIpMY2vOtW

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

@petergeye Thanks so much Peter! The lake shifted through so many moods. This was a fun one to capture.

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Lake Superior plays in light and shadow, from definition to a tenebrous horizon melding with cloud, snow and the shimmering unknown of mirage. https://t.co/KTJW5IoZzI

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Winter is my favorite time to watch the sunrise or sunset, and it's hardly more spectacular than on Lake Superior. The short days are lit by a sun that clings to that endless horizon--high noon isn't all that high, and the sun just dwindles in that magic… https://t.co/n06bqqRePU

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Taking an early season ski down a north shore river. #KeepTheNorthCold @askovfinlayson @peakdesign #getoutside https://t.co/mKWbnDCKys

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Last winter, I woke to a bit of magic on the water - Lake Superior covered in a sheet of frozen glass. It was smooth, a fresh sheet of crystal clear lake ice. It wasn't long before skaters were suspended between this world and the sky, carving turns and … https://t.co/iLAnkMnTw6

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

Sharing a snowshoe hike with the little guy. He’s new to snowshoes, but after a few turns and hills on the packed trail, he’s taking to it well. Still, a snowshoe walk in the woods is equal parts walking, snacks and starfish moments. #KeepTheNorthCold @a… https://t.co/xcet0iMqui

[Alex Messenger @AMessengerPhoto]

It’s ice season in Duluth. https://t.co/jug6nA9TI0