

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." "And right after I said that, the bear came out of the willows. "I saw bear crap all over, and I looked at Kenny and said, 'There's a grizzly bear here,'" said Mr Lowry. Kendell Cummings and his friend Brady Lowry were out searching for antlers shed by elk and deer in the Shoshone National Forest when they were rushed by the big grizzly. The encounter, which happened earlier this month, was recorded on a camera attached to his climbing helmet.

"Looking back at the video, it seems that the bear attacked me to protect the cub," the climber said. Letting out a startled cry, the climber fends off the bear with kicks and punches, before beginning to climb back up the ridge he had been descending.
ANGRY GIANT GRIZZLY BEAR FULL
"I had no choice but to face it," he said.Įmerging suddenly from behind a rocky ridge, the bear can be seen launching itself at the climber at full speed. Futago," the climber wrote in the description of the video, which has already racked up more than 1.2 million views on YouTube. "I was attacked by a bear from behind while descending the rocky ridge of Mt. The man was climbing down Mount Futago, in a national park west of Tokyo, carefully edging his way down a limestone stack, when he was surprised by the furious bear. –Biologists performed a necropsy on the bear and determined it suffered significant injuries, including massive head, neck and spinal wounds, a broken right shoulder and a laceration in the right flank exposing its organs.ĭefinitely not a scene most visitors would want to witness, but a prime example of Yellowstone as a wild universe where life is difficult for all critters, young and old.A climber in Japan managed to fight off a large, angry bear while clinging to a limestone cliff, with dramatic video footage showing his terror as he was attacked by the animal. –Staff hazed the mating pair away from the road, moved visitors from the scene, and then euthanized the subadult bear and removed it from the roadside. –Bear management staff arrived on scene and observed the subadult bear for an hour and determined that it was not going to survive. The subadult bear attempted to get up, which caused the male bear to attack it a second time by grabbing and shaking its neck and head.
ANGRY GIANT GRIZZLY BEAR FREE
It was then able to temporarily free itself, but the large male grizzly, estimated to be over 500 pounds, attacked and pinned it to the ground before leaving it. –The female of the mating pair aggressively attacked the subadult bear.


–The male subadult bear, weighing 148 pounds, was seen digging on the roadside prior to the attack, unaware that a mating pair of grizzly bears was approaching it. –On May 22 at approximately 10:15 a.m., a subadult grizzly bear, estimated to be 2-3 years old, was attacked and severely injured by a mating pair of grizzly bears in the Roaring Mountain/Clearwater Springs area. is described in the following timeline provided to FTW Outdoors on Tuesday by the Yellowstone National Park Public Affairs office: On Sunday morning, the three bears were foraging in a field close to the road in the Roaring Mountain/Clearwater Springs area.
