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Out Alive from Backpacker

I Fought Off a Grizzly

Out Alive from Backpacker

Louisa Albanese

Places & Travel, Sports, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Evans takes us through a first-hand account of the catastrophic injuries he sustained after being mauled by a grizzly bear three times while deep in the Canadian backcountry.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This story contains a discussion of thoughts of suicide as well as very graphic content,

0:12.6

including descriptions of multiple serious injuries and is not suitable for all listeners.

0:24.6

Some stories more than others leave us with an inescapable question.

0:29.3

How could somebody survive that?

0:32.8

While reading mold, that was the question that replayed in our minds over and over again.

0:39.2

The book details an account by survivor Jeremy Evans and is co-authored by Crosby Cotton

0:44.9

with journal entries by Jeremy's wife Joyce.

0:49.0

As the former editor of the Calgary Herald and an award-winning journalist who's writing

0:53.6

has appeared on the pages of sports illustrated and time, suffice it to say Crosby

0:59.2

knows a thing or two about an incredible story.

1:02.6

They told me some of his story and it was the most intriguing story I've heard in a long

1:09.5

time.

1:10.5

It's practically unbelievable.

1:12.8

Jeremy Evans endured the unthinkable and yet it wasn't until meeting Crosby that he

1:17.5

saw his ordeal as no worthy.

1:20.2

That's just the kind of guy Jeremy is.

1:22.9

You'll hear from Jeremy, Crosby and Joyce.

1:25.9

To get an even more detailed account, find a copy of Crosby and Jeremy's book Mald.

1:32.2

It's a story of finding life and hope and love through brutality and I hope you'll go

1:37.6

check it out after hearing this episode and get some answers to how somebody survives

1:44.3

the unsurvivable.

1:47.1

I made a decision to survive in that survival mode.

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