Climbing mountains isn’t the easiest endeavor one can take up. It’s hard work, often in spots where a slip could end in disaster. Generally, a climber likes to be focussed on the task at hand, so when a guy descending Mount Futago in Japan came across an angry bear, he likely wasn’t too excited about a close encounter with a majestic beast.
“Instead of fear,” the climber wrote on YouTube, “I switched to the feeling that if it was coming, I had no choice but to face it.”
It’s likely that the bear only attacked him because he’d unknowingly come too close to her cub. The climber immediately began screaming at her, pounding at her with a fist and kicking her when she came too close.
“I learned karate when I was a child,” he continued, but I liked mixed martial arts now, so maybe I could use hammer fist instead of punches.”
After the bear had disappeared into the trees, he cautiously continued his decent and made it down without further incident. He only had minor injuries.
“My hands were scratched and cut from desperately holding on to the rock,” he explained. “My right wrist was slightly sprained after hammering the rock and the bear.”
