Two college wrestlers are grateful for life after surviving a fight with one of the largest bear species, brown or also known as grizzly, when they were hunting antlers in the woods. Both were mutilated by the huge animal and this one in its great history for telling that he came back viral. The scene took place in the United States.
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Kendall Cummings, Brayden Lowry, August Harrison, and Orrin Jackson, all students and wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, they said they were looking for antlers in the Shoshone National Forest, when suddenly Kendall and Brayden separated from the group, as specified NBC Montana.
It was at that moment when a huge brown bear attacked them for no reason. He first lunged at Lowry and then knocked his other partner down. The university wrestlers fought for his life even knowing the enormous strength of the animal.
To reassure their relatives, the young men managed to survive the grizzly bear attack but were left disfigured and mutilated, for which they underwent a series of surgeries on their faces and body parts.
“The bear ran out of the trees. I didn’t even see it until it was right in front of me, but I heard the crash.” Lowry said in exclusive statements to abcnews. Likewise, he remembered that he must protect his head and fight for his life.
Kendall, for her part, tried to help her partner by holding the bear, but her efforts were in vain. The animal lunged at him and attacked him mercilessly. Cummings put his hands over the animal’s mouth so it wouldn’t chew on his neck.
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The huge animal of the family of omnivorous mammals moved away for a few minutes, but then came back to attack them. Finally, they managed to escape from the grizzly bear and were reunited with their other companions.
According to Clarion of Argentina, Cummings and Lowry achieved call 911 after the attack and with great effort, they made it to the trailhead with the help of their teammates to be aided by the Park County Search and Rescue Department.
Through a statement issued last Monday, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department assured that the largest amount of data on the incident that impacted the entire world is still being collected.
“Based on initial information, it appears to be a sudden and surprise encounter with a grizzly bear,” the agency added. They also indicated that in recent weeks a large amount of bear activity has been reported in the drainages of the South Fork, North Fork, the Clarks Fork River and the Greybull River.
According to information from abcnewsCummings was airlifted to the Billings Clinic in Cody, where he received 60 staples to the head after a vicious grizzly attack. Lowry, for his part, was also taken to the same hospital but by land, by ambulance.
The latter mentioned includes a compound fracture in his left arm and is recovering. Both maintain that it is a gift from God to have been able to get out of the forest alive.
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