It’s been seven months since the couple that was brutally mauled after accidentally surprising a mother grizzly and her cubs. Tonight, Peter Moody and Susan Bond spoke to Global News about their experience, hoping others don’t make the same mistakes.
The Kimberley, B.C. couple looks healthy now but the man who first saw them after the attack could hardly believe they were still alive. Their experience would be impossible to forget – but neither victim can remember every detail of the attacks.
“In my attack with the bear, it took quite a bit of the scalp off,” recalls Peter Moody. “And I do remember when they took the stitches out after healing, I counted 26 stitches and then I lost count.”
But between the two of them, they tell a story about two hikers out for a walk along Cherry Creek last November armed with ski poles, when they came across a grizzly bear. Bond froze in fear and attempted to step away when the bear attacked. It was Moody’s actions of hitting the bear with the ski poles that turned her attention to him.
For Bond, who now walks with a cane, the damage was extensive – she has titanium plates around her eye, her cheek was rebuilt and her eye had to be put back in the socket.
Even though their injuries were severe, they both got up and started walking. They had gone several hundred metres when a neighbor, Randy Harvey, found them. Harvey couldn’t believe they were able to travel so far in their condition.
Now Moody and Bond are helping an author who has written a book, Bears without Fear.
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