Two college wrestlers in Wyoming were left broken and bloodied Saturday after they survived a grizzly bear attack.
The young men were part of a group of four wrestlers from Northwest College who ran into the wrong bear on an antler hunting trip, according to a report.
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Kendell Cummings and Brady Lowry, both sophomores, had wandered off from their group in Wyoming’s Shoshone National Forest when things took a turn for the worse.
“I saw bear crap all over, and I looked at Kenny [Cummings] and said, ‘There is a grizzly bear here,'” Lowry said.
“And right after I said that, the bear came out of the willows. It was thick. It came at me and charged me and tackled me off this cliff into this gulley and was going at me for a little bit.”
The beast broke Lowry’s arm and thrashed the young man around.
“I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “I curled up in a ball and it got me a few more times.”
Cummings saw what was happening to his friend and acted quickly to help Lowry.
He attempted to get the bear’s attention, and, when that didn’t work, he kicked the bear, pulled on its fur, and got it to turn its attention away from Lowry.
“It tackled me, chewed me up a bit, and then when it was done, it wandered off, and I started calling out for Brady to make sure he was alright,” Cummings said.
Soon, the bear returned to the college students, the report noted.
“The bear circled back around, and it got me again, chewed on me, and that’s when it got my head and cheek,” according to Cummings. “And then it went away again for whatever reason.”
After the bear left, all four wrestlers were reunited, according to the report.
August Harrison and Orrin Jackson helped carry Cummings to safety.
“He was just drenched in blood coming down the hill everywhere,” Harrison said.
The students ran into a hunter who helped them get to other first responders, and the group was eventually taken to receive medical attention.
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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is conducting an investigation into the attack.
