A mountain in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park is closed to visitors after a grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man from Massachusetts. Park officials say the grizzly was one of two that surprised the unidentified 35-year-old man Sunday afternoon on Signal Mountain.
FILE - The morning sun illuminates the Grand Tetons, Aug. 26, 2016, in Grand Teton National Park, north of Jackson Hole, Wyo. A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man in western Wyoming ’s Grand Teton National Park, prompting closure of a mountain there Monday, May 20, 2024. MOOSE, Wyo. — A grizzly bear attacked and seriously injured a man in western Wyoming ’s Grand Teton National Park, prompting closure of a mountain there Monday.
The grizzly was one of two that surprised the 35-year-old man from Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon on Signal Mountain. Rescuers flew the injured man by helicopter to an ambulance that drove him to a nearby hospital.The statement did not detail the man’s injuries or say how he encountered the bear. Park officials closed a trail and the road to an overlook atop the 7,700-foot mountain.occur each year as the region’s grizzly population has grown.
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