Hello everyone, welcome back to National Park After Dark.

We have a little bit of a different kind of episode today.

We're doing an interview of a story that I think that everyone's going to be very interested

in hearing. And many people have suggested that we look into. So for people who have sent

in different book requests or requests for stories, we always love to hear them, but there

has been one that's kind of like popped up frequently over the last couple months. And

it was about a particular book called Mald, and it was about a man who encountered a

grizzly bear in the backcountry. And they're like, hey, you should read this. Not even really

about an episode, you know, nothing about that. Just like, hey, it's interesting and you

should read it. So we did one better for everyone. We sure did. We did read the book. Yeah, not

only did we read it, we contacted the man, his name is Jeremy Evans, the subject of the book,

co-author of the book for an interview. So he's here today to tell us all about his experience.

And we had the pleasure of speaking with him today. We're recording the centroid just after we

finish our interview, but he is an avid outdoorsman. He's a family man and he is now an author.

He grew up in Alberta, Canada, and he fell in love with the outdoors at an early age, and he

dedicated most of his life being in it, hunting, fishing, exploring, camping, oftentimes doing it

solo, deep in the backcountry. And it was on one of these solo adventures in August of 2017,

when he had what he describes as an oh shit moment while scouting for sheep through binoculars,

miles from the nearest back road, he lowered them to see a terrifying sight, a lone grizzly cub.

And instinctually, he knew Mama was nearby and he was absolutely right. What happened next

forever changed Jeremy, but it didn't stop him. Jeremy is truly an inspirational guy with an

incredible story to share. He co-authored the book Mald, Lessons Learned from a grizzly bear attack

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