Camper fights off bear attack

A teenager who teaches wilderness survival fought off a bear after waking to find the animal biting his head and trying to drag him away.

The 19-year-old woke up at around 4am to a “crunching sound” with his head inside the mouth of the bear, which was trying to pull him out of his sleeping bag.

The teenager punched and hit it and other people who were sleeping nearby yelled and swatted at the bear, which eventually left.

The incident happened at Glacier View Ranch in Colorado.

The teenager, identified only as Dylan, said: “The crunching noise, I guess, was the teeth scraping against the skull as it dug in.”