Bill Hillmann writes that despite his brush with death in 2014 while running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, the centuries old tradition, he says, “is a huge part of me.”
On July 11, 2014, I was running with a bull in Pamplona, Spain. The 1,200-pound black bull with huge horns trotted just a few feet behind me, froth dangling from his mouth and his breath warm at my back. When a tourist pushed me to the ground, Brevito, a bull from the Victoriano del Río ranch, swooped down in slow motion, locked his eyes on me, aimed his long-curved horn and punctured my inner thigh. He lifted me gracefully into the air and we both fell to the cobblestone pavement.
This is how I met and became friends with John Hemingway and his son Michael, the photojournalist who aided me in 2014. Ernest Hemingway set me on this path that led to my brush with death on the tips of a bull’s horn and another Hemingway came to my rescue when I needed a friend. Due to the gorgeous, dangerous, and at times gruesome imagery of the bull run at the Fiesta de San Fermín, the running of the bulls catches the attention of international news media every summer.
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