Rudy Noorlander survived a grisly — and grizzly — bear attack in Montana in early September 2023 and not only lived to talk about it, but to tell jokes about the encounter. Friday at ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KTVX) — Rudy Noorlander waited to tell his story until he had his voice back. It’s been more than a year and a half since Noorlander was mauled by a grizzly bear in Montana.

SALT LAKE CITY — It was just one year and seven months ago that Rudy Noorlander thought that he might die as a grizzly bear ran at him as he attempted to help a father-son duo of hunters.

Rudy Noorlander speaks during a press conference discussing the care he received at University of Utah Health after a life-threatening grizzly bear attack on Sept. 9, 2023, in Big Sky, Mont., ...