Getting Wiseman off the mountain took heroic efforts from several people as well as, in the words of the book's author, the oversight of “guardian angels.” Though the bear had almost miraculously been vanquished, survival remained far from assured for the gravely injured Wiseman, who was 14 miles from civilization and with darkness closing in.
Wiseman said a later necropsy determined that his first stab severed the bear's jugular vein, and the second pierced her heart – either of which or both in concert could have proved fatal. The soon-to-be-dead bear walked off about 25 yards, lay down and put her head on her front paws, Wiseman said. You will begin to receive our Daily News updates. Add your contacts. With a stream of bear blood the thickness of his thumb gushing into his own face, Wiseman said he jammed the half arrow back into the bear beneath her right armpit. “The next thing I knew she was on top of me, chewing on my lower right leg and right shoulder,” Wiseman recalled during a recent interview.Īfter his initial possum-playing posture proved ineffective and it appeared the bear would soon kill him, Wiseman said he grabbed one of his spilled arrows from the ground and jammed it into the right side of the bear's neck with such force that the arrow's metal tip bent and its aluminum shaft broke in two. He had just time enough to holler, “No!” before the bear sacked him like a 400-pound linebacker on a 190-pound quarterback.
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The horrifying subsequent events have been chronicled in a recently published book, “Grizzly Attack in Colorado,” by longtime Wiseman friend Deb Carpenter-Nolting,Īround 5 p.m., not long after Wiseman and his client split up to increase their chances of finding an elk, Wiseman said he heard a noise, looked up and saw the bear 30 yards away in full charge.
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