The family of an Alaska man who was fatally attacked by a moose said the amateur photographer died doing what he loved.
This week’s Insider Deals are so good you’ll want all of themThis 2021 photo provided by Gerri Martin shows Dale and Dianne Chorman with the Matanuska Glacier behind them, near Palmer, Alaska. Dale Chorman was attempting to photograph a moose and her newborn twins when the moose killed Chorman Sunday, May 19, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. trying to protect her newborn twin calves said he was a nature photographer who knew the risks of taking photos in the wild and died doing what he loved.
“There was no evident trampling, and they didn’t see any signs of trauma later when they recovered his body,” he said. “I think the medical examiner’s going to try to figure out exactly what happened, whether it was just single blow in the terrible wrong place or something.” The fatal attack occurred on Chorman’s 3-acre property just east of Homer, where every spring moose give birth in a dense scrub forest of alder and elderberry.
The moose should not be killed, Spence-Chorman wrote. “The ungulate mother need not die. She was just protecting her offspring.”“The truth is, he died doing what he loved,” he wrote. In the case of moose, the largest in the deer family, small adult females can weigh up to 800 pounds with males twice that. They can also stand up to 6 feet tall at the shoulder.This is the second fatal moose attack in Alaska in the last three decades.
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