Ultimate Arctic Crossing - part 2

Friday March 22 - DAY 26: Encounter with bears. It was first a young male that suddenly appeared from the other side of a compression ridge and which came to examine Alain's sledge from close to hand. Alain had to shoot twice to get rid of the animal. ©Photo : PolarBearsAlive.org

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