Some days, the bear eats you...

Some days, you eat the bear:

The five-foot-nine man eventually crushed the bear's skull with the stick, killing it.

West then walked a kilometre and a half to a local lodge, where he was transported to hospital. The gashes in his body took 60 stitches to sew up.

This guy has a fight with a mother-bear, and kills it with a stick.

Jim West, my hat is off to you. From a distance, where I hope I do not resemble a bear.

(Also, an interview after the fact.)