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College Wrestlers Recount Near-Death Fight With Grizzly Bear

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Four college wrestlers say they are grateful to be alive — and for each other — after going toe-to-toe with a grizzly bear in Wyoming over the weekend.

Brayden Lowry, Kendell Cummings, August Harrison and Orrin Jackson, all students and wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming, said they were searching for fallen antlers in Shoshone National Forest on Saturday when suddenly Lowry and Cummings came across a grizzly bear. The animal attacked, tackling Lowry first.MORE: 2 college wrestlers ambushed in gruesome grizzly bear attack while hunting

“The bear came running out of the trees. I didn’t even see it until it was right in front of me, but I heard the crashing,” Lowry told ABC News in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday on “Good Morning America.”

“The only thing I could yell is: ‘Bear! Bear!'” he recalled. “I just knew I had to protect my head and just kind of fight for life, you know — it’s life or death.” more. h/t NAAC.

8 Comments on College Wrestlers Recount Near-Death Fight With Grizzly Bear

  1. I hiked a couple of times in “K Country” just west of Calgary, Alberta. I and the other person carried bear spray with us all the time. Also, it is important to try to scare the bear or failing that, to drop and ball up, protecting your head. Black bears are scary just before hibernation, grizzly bears are even bigger and more scary!

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