With claw wounds still healing on his face, the jogger who wrestled a mountain lion to the death has spoken out for the first time about the encounter. The attack happened on a Colorado trail that left him needing 28 stitches.
When the Colorado Parks and Wildlife first announced that an unnamed jogger had fought off a juvenile mountain lion on Feb. 4, the dramatic story had one gaping hole—how had he managed to kill the lion with his bare hands?