A video of a man’s terrifying six-minute-long encounter with a cougar on a Utah hiking trail in Utah has now gone viral.

**WARNING: The video below contains explicit language. Viewer discretion is advised.

“Kyle Burgess was walking in Slate Canyon, just outside of Provo, on the afternoon of Oct. 10 when he noticed the animal in front of him at some distance,” one local news affiliate reports. “The video clip begins with Burgess initially taking a few steps in the cougar’s direction before it scampers away. It returns almost immediately and charges toward him, prompting him to yell out several expletives as he runs to safety.”

Burgess then made loud noises, imploring the wild cat to leave him alone -- but it took convincing before the cougar fled.

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