Sobering.
Saw a Nat Geo doc recently about a group of physicians on a camping retreat to Torngat Mountains National Park. A polar bear tore through their electric fence like nothing, grabbing one doctor stilll wrapped in the tent, by his head.
Scared off finally by their flair guns.
I took a coast guard medevac helicopter 12 hours or more to arrive.
The friends had neglected the mandatory rifled inuit guide when trecking the remote area.
After the airlift, a guide was stationed on guard with the remaining campers.
He pointed out the 16 polar bears the men mistook for snowy boulders in the surrounding hills.
Despite his injuries, the doctor made a full recovery, the bear having missed major arteries in the neck.
There are experienced inuit hunters who fell polar bears, having them drop dead only feet away from them, in a last charge of anger.
