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• The Man Who Loved Grizzlies

  by Ned Zeman + Follow

  Vanity Fair | May 2004

  For Timothy Treadwell, the grizzlies of Alaska weren’t just the world’s largest terrestrial predators. They were his soul mates, his salvation, and his cause. Last October, when a 1,000-pound male tore him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, to pieces, Treadwell died as he’d lived–by the bear.

• Segal Under Siege

  by Ned Zeman + Follow

  Vanity Fair | October 2002

• Death Among the Emperors

  by Ned Zeman + Follow

  Vanity Fair | January 2000

  When Bruno Zehnder froze to death in July 1997 near Russia’s Mirny base in desolate Antarctica, a legend was born—and a mystery created. Obsessed with penguins since childhood, the tall, handsome adventurer had made pilgrimage after pilgrimage to the remote breeding grounds of the emperor penguin, winning acclaim for his anthropomorphic photographs. The author investigates Zehnder’s secretive, playboy life in New York City; rumors of C.I.A. or K.G.B. ties; and the questions surrounding his icy grave.