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

Video footage from the Arctic town of Pyramiden on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard shows the polar bear charging at a man who fired at him.

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.

In a heart-stopping incident, a hotel worker narrowly escaped becoming a polar bear's next meal in the Arctic town of Pyramiden in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. The chilling encou ...

The Visit Svalbard tourism website describes the polar bear as the "King of the Arctic" and "one of the world’s largest carnivores." "Polar bears attack extremely quickly without warning.

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

Polar bears, also known as the King of the Arctic, are not uncommon in the Svalbard archipelago and Barents Sea, according to tourism agency Visit Svalbard. The agency estimates their population ...