It was 2017 when Evans had stopped to watch some sheeps grazing when he noticed a cub nearby. He then heard a branch snap nearby, and his attention was diverted to a 300lb grizzly bear, which seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

In an interview about the incident, he explained: “She pulled her paw across my face from the bottom left hand corner, all the way towards the right side and removed my whole face in one swoop, my nose, my right ear, everything.”

He went on to describe the horrific attack, saying, “She started chewing on the left back corner of my head like a dog gnawing on a bone. And then she just started ripping and tearing everything off.”

He was badly injured and tried to