![]() ![]() "I can't imagine the horror, the terror of it. ![]() "I'm proud of them, just the way they love each other, they way they protected each other, the way they stuck together," Zeigler told the Deseret News. Other members of the wrestling team joined coach Jim Zeigler at the hospital to support their injured teammates. Neither man was listed as a patient there Tuesday, hospital spokesperson Zach Benoit said. Lowry was able to walk by himself.īoth ended up at Billings (Montana) Clinic Hospital, where Cummings underwent surgery. ![]() Two other teammates, August Harrison and Orrin Jackson, helped badly injured Cummings off the mountain, carrying him at times. In the meantime, Lowry was able to walk to an area with cell service and call 911. "Then I saw it again, and it came and attacked me again."Īfter the bear left a second time, Cummings pulled himself up and began looking for his teammates. "I heard the bear kind of grunting behind me, and I heard it walking," Cummings said. "I was putting my hands in its mouth and stuff, so it wouldn't be chewing on my neck and everything."Ĭummings said the bear eventually walked away but was gone only briefly. "It knocked me onto the ground and then, with its head, pushed me on the ground all the way up against the trees and then kind of pinned me up there and it was attacking me," Cummings told ABC News. The bear quickly turned its fury onto Cummings. I could have run and potentially lost a friend or get him off and save him." It was bad," Cummings told the Deseret News. His teammate, Kendell Cummings, of Evanston, Wyoming, tried to stop the attack on Lowry by yelling, kicking and hitting the bear and pulling on its fur. 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 interview that aired Wednesday on "Good Morning America." "The only thing I could yell is: 'Bear! Bear!' I just knew I had to protect my head and just kind of fight for life, you know - it's life or death." The men are crediting their bonds as wrestling teammates at Northwest College in Cody, Wyoming, with helping them survive the attack Saturday night southeast of Yellowstone National Park.īrady Lowry, of Cedar City, Utah, suffered a broken arm and puncture wounds in the initial attack after they surprised the bear while searching for antlers shed by elk and deer in the Shoshone National Forest. Northwest College wrestlers hospitalized after bear attackĪ college wrestler from a small Wyoming school helped his teammate survive a grizzly mauling over the weekend by trying to wrestle the massive bear off his friend, eventually drawing a more brutal attack to himself. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser ![]()
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