For four days a huge white bear has been pursuing the members of the ski expedition To the North Pole at Polar Night. The travelers Matvei Shparo and Boris Smolin are going to conquer the North Pole under extreme conditions of polar night period.
      
      Shparo and Smolin started off from the cape of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago on December 22. From December 24 the crew was detained in the tent by a raging blizzard, and this is when an enormous bear appeared nearby the camp. On December 25 the beast undertook its first attack, in the result of which the expedition members lost some of their equipment, foodstuffs and a can of fuel. The travelers have guns out ready all the time.
      
      Every day the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring and the Arctic and Antarctic Institute in Saint Petersburg inform the crew about weather and ice condition forecast. For the travelers’ security there are two helicopters of Emergency Situations RF on duty at the ice aerodrome on the Sredni Island of the Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago.
      
      Source: fontanka.ru