I don't have adequate details to satisfy comprehension let alone curiosity, but this is what I know:

My close personal friend Greg's Australian partner, Gemma works for her government having achieved diplomatic status. Recently she was honoured with her first oversees appointment at the Australian embassy in Zimbabwe, Greg attending as her spouse.

I have learned that, while touring a game park, they were attacked by lions and Gemma has received grievous injuries. She is alive today because Greg lead the fight, bare handed, against the four predators to free Gemma. He also administered first aid helping ensure her survival until medical attention could be found.

Gemma lies now in intensive care in Pretoria, South Africa where Greg is at her bedside hourly. She is lucky not only to have received no vital organ, arterial or skeletal damage, but to have a mate who risked everything, literally staring into the jaws of death to save her life.

She has had two operations so far and more are certain for the future. The doctors say her injuries are no longer life threatening, but I gather there is still some recovery to be made before she is completely out of the woods. I know Gemma since she practically lived with Greg and I throughout one summer and I am, quite frankly, worried sick for her physical and psychological well being; dumbfounded at the scope of what they have experienced and what they continue to go through.

It has been remarked that 'a hero is someone who is too stupid to know better', or 'heroes aren't made their cornered', and many other such easily quoteable catch phrases which are true to one extent or another in their way, but however you want to look at it, at the end of the day, Greg is the bravest man I know.

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