Woman and baby out for a walk, killed by brown bear. They and husband lived in the outback.

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A Yukon trapper shot an attacking grizzly bear — then discovered it had probably already killed his family.

Gjermund Roesholt was returning from checking his fur traps in the Canadian Yukon on Tuesday afternoon when he found himself in the path of an aggressive, charging grizzly bear. The confrontation was only the start of the day’s horror for the Norwegian-born trapper.

His family — his partner, Valérie Théorêt and their 10-month-old baby, Adele Roesholt — had spent the fall in the cold and sparsely populated region 500 miles east of Anchorage, trapping furs around Einarson Lake.

They had purchased the trapline three years before, friends told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and planned to spend as much time in the beautiful, remote region as possible, living off the land. Spending time there was a balancing act because Théorêt was also a sixth-grade French immersion teacher in the town of Whitehorse, 250 miles away.

But then baby Adele came and Théorêt went on maternity leave, giving the small family the opportunity to pursue their passion in the Canadian bush.

Roesholt, 37, operated a company called Wild Tracks, serving as a guide for people interested in hunting, fishing and trapping.

His Instagram page was something out of Field & Stream magazine. It showed him holding fish the size of his torso and selling wares at the Yukon fur market. He would trap the animals, and Théorêt would fashion some of the furs into crafts: booties for children, mittens for adults and heart-shaped refrigerator magnets for whoever would buy them. In one photo snapped at the market, Roesholt has his arm around Théorêt near a table full of furs for sale, a baby stroller nearby.

[Should wild animals that attack people be killed?]

The dangers of their existence in a region inhabited by gray wolves and two species of bear were obvious, but Roesholt and Théorêt were experienced bush people, friends told news organizations. There are few documented fatal bear attacks in the Yukon, the Yukon News reported. And Roesholt carried a gun.

When the bear charged Tuesday, the Yukon Coroner’s Service said in a news release, Roesholt was “forced to shoot the bear dead” less than a football field’s length from the family’s cabin.

He was almost home when he discovered the bodies.

His partner and daughter had been mauled to death, apparently by the same grizzly.

Roesholt activated an emergency SPOT alarm, a beacon that people in remote areas use to alert authorities and loved ones when they encounter danger.

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No words for how horrible this is. So incredibly sad.

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