Calgary man recovering from encounter with mother grizzly feels fortunate to have survived
Too much pepper can ruin a meal — and nobody is more thankful for that fact than Ry Craigie.
Until a choking cloud of bear spray helped drive off a raging mother grizzly, the 31-year-old Calgarian was sure he was going to die — and as the bruin snapped and tore, the victim’s overwhelming thought was, “What a horrible way to go”.
“I thought I was going to die by getting eaten alive by a bear,” said Craigie.
“Can you tell me any worse way to die than that?”
Craigie is safe now, if not completely out of the woods.
As he recovers in Foothills hospital from Saturday’s attack in the Ghost wilderness west of Calgary, Craigie is a mess of stitches and bandages, some covering wounds that may never properly heal.
It’s a matter of waiting, and hoping for the best.
As a welder by trade, relying on dexterous hands for the delicate work he performs, badly bitten fingers are of particular concern — but he’s alive, and Craigie says gratitude for that lucky
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