A video captured a polar bear charging at a person in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, forcing them to drop their gun and race away on a snowmobile.

The incident took place on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard on April 27, when the man attempted to scare the polar bear away by firing a warning shot, but it charged towards him.

NORWAY - With one foot braced on the helicopter's landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a ...

It was almost like a scene out of a movie as a man dropped everything and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear in Norway. Dramatic video footage captured by Rebecca Baack ...

Heart-stopping video shows a man drop his gun and then narrowly outrun a polar bear in Norway. While at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month, Rebecca Baack captured video from her ...

The footage, taken by American tourist Rebecca Baack during a ski trip, shows the man firing a warning shot from his rifle to scare the bear away. Instead, the massive animal charged him.

This combination makes polar bear fur highly resistant to freezing, Holst says. Lab tests showed that it performed about as well as fluorinated ski waxes, which have been banned in Norway for ...

In 2021, scientists in Norway found polar bears were inbreeding as the species fights to survive. A study found that on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, polar bear populations have seen a 10 ...

With one foot braced on the helicopter’s landing skid, a veterinarian lifted his air rifle, took aim and fired a tranquilizer ...

This combination makes polar bear fur highly resistant to freezing, Holst says. Lab tests showed that it performed about as well as fluorinated ski waxes, which have been banned in Norway for ...