⛑️ Check out what happens when you wake a hibernating bear! ⛑️https://youtu.be/eCpoPhqqz4Q?si=IwDLQpL-t1ERoCFr
In 2012, Matt Dyer was a 48 year old hiker who was looking for his next adventure. He felt a wave of excitement come over him when he saw an ad for a Sierra Club group hike into remote Torngat National Park in Northern Labrador. Matt and the group were excited at the possibility of seeing polar bears in their natural habitat. What happened on this trip was the stuff of nightmares...
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Sources:
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2015-1-january-february/feature/man-who-survived-polar-bear-attack
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/polar-bear-attack-survivor-played-dead-to-save-his-life-1.1389918
Vice documentary - Polar Bear Man Returns to the Arctic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e0xDfhJ6O4
Backpacker Magazine: https://www.backpacker.com/survival/out-alive-podcast/the-night-i-was-mauled-by-a-polar-bear/
https://www.rd.com/article/polar-bear-attack/
“Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World” (ebook), by Sabrina Shankman
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2015/01/04/in-the-jaws-of-climate-change/
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