Joe Pendry used his experience as a boxer to fight for his life when a mother grizzly attacked him, grabbed him by the head and inflicted horrific injuries in British Columbia’s East Kootenay region this month.
His wife, Janice Pendry, has described how her 63-year-old husband survived the attack that took place near Fort Steele, northeast of Cranbrook, on Oct. 2 while he was hunting elk and encountered the bear, which had two cubs.
Pendry said her husband shot the charging bear in the leg but it kept coming.
She said he punched and even bit the animal’s ear as he fought for his life, suffering gruesome injuries that include his lips and part of his scalp being torn off, losing a finger and suffering numerous broken bones….