Don't try this at home

Whoooooooaaaaaaaaa boy.

These are not my pictures, but hit the news the other day from Kaktovik, AK, which is way up north on the Arctic Ocean. Apparently it's a popular spot to phtograph polar bears.

Bad:

Worse:


Life flashing before eyes:


WHU-OH!


i never heard the whole story, but apparently it all worked out. Wild pictures, but at what point do you think the shutterbug would get involved to distract the bear and at least let the dude get into the truck? Ever? Let's hope so.

I know polar bears are the poster-child of global warming right now, but make no mistake. If you are going to roll the dice in bear country, they are the LAST kind of bear you want to encounter. By all accounts from people who share habitat with them up north, they are big, they are vicious, and owing to their harsh environment they view pretty much any living thing as prey. That's a bad formula for a wildlife encounter.

I would really like to see them in the wild before they are gone.

From a distance!