Two American students, members of a wrestling team, faced their toughest opponent on Saturday, October 16. Attacked by a grizzly bear, Kendell Cummings and Brady Lowry had to come to blows. The two young people have been hospitalized but are doing well. They delivered their testimonies to the American media.
They were returning from a hunting trip in the state of Wyoming and were about to return to their car when Brady Lowry saw bear prints near the vehicle. As he pointed them to his friend, the animal exploded from the trees and knocked Lowry down, pinning him to the ground. “He grabbed my left arm, he shook me, he broke my left arm,” he told CNN.
His teammate, Kendell Cummings, then tried to get the bear’s attention by screaming and throwing objects at him. In vain. Then he launched himself on the animal. “I didn’t want to lose my friend,” he told Deseret News. “I could have run away and potentially lose a friend, or take them away and save them. The grizzly immediately turned on him.
bite in the face
“He attacked me, he chewed me a bit”, then “he went away”. “I started calling Brady to make sure he was okay,” Kendell Cummings told CNN. But the bear only walked away briefly. “He turned around, he attacked me again, he bit me, and that’s when he hit me in the head and cheek. And he walked away.”
A photo shared on Instagram shows the two young men in the hospital, Lowry with an arm in a cast, Cummings with bite marks on his face and bandages on his arm and wrist.
Lowry said he ran up the mountain for help and found two other teammates he and Cummings had spent part of the day with. Reunited, the three students then joined Cummings who was “limping up the mountain, drenched in blood.” The peasants came to help them and the wounded were assisted by the emergency services.
“In the vicinity of the attack, reports from landowners and hunters indicate that there may be six to 10 different bears moving between farm fields and low slopes,” according to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD).
