That guy is lucky the elk did’t have a mind to impale him.
Reminded me of the time I was in Northern Maine doing some white water rafting, and as the bus was taking us back to our cars, there was an enormous bull moose, chewing cud with that stupid, beady-eyed look moose have when they are just bored and eating. Some guy with a camera was walking right up to the thing as was about five feet away snapping pictures.
It just sat there looking at him, and the bus driver hissed from his open door
“Get the F*** away from that thing!”
He told us that there had been someone badly injured in that exact same scenario a few years back, and that those huge males could be wildly unpredictable in certain situations.
Moose kill more people in Alaska than bears.