Last week, a polar bear injured a skier on Baffin Island. Several readers commented on the incident. We try to unpack the issue of bears and Arctic travel.

Late last week, a polar bear attacked a skier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island. Other visitors came to the skier’s aid, and the bear withdrew.

A video posted by two tourists who visited Arctic Bay, Nunavut this week where they made negative comments about polar bear ...

The Calgary Zoo's Dr. Sandie Black and Colleen Baird discuss necropsy results for Baffin the polar bear after his death on July 19, 2024.

Then the polar bear appears ... veering southwest toward our campsite on the northernmost tip of Baffin Island, Canada, about 700 miles north of Hudson Bay. Within a few decades such vistas ...

Video: John Huston discusses his polar expedition. For more of our conversation with ... This past winter and spring I lived among the Inuit of Baffin Island in Canada's Nunavut Territory for three ...

Interview with Polish climber Marek Raganowicz who in April and May 2012 established a new big wall climb, Superbalance (VII, A4, M7+) up Polar Sun Spire on Baffin Island together with Marcin ...

British climbers Mike 'Twid' Turner, Stuart McAleese and Mark Thomas have established their new route Arctic Monkeys (VI A4 V+ 1400m) on Sail Peaks, Baffin Island ... warmer climates that the Grizzly ...

As we reported yesterday, a polar bear attacked a skier in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island last week. Details are scant, but the skier was evidently injured but all right. Authorities ...