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.

A dramatic video captured a man fleeing a charging polar bear in Norway after dropping ... midnight with someone saying there was a bear," Rebecca Baack, who was staying at a hotel, told Storyful.

While at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month, Rebecca Baack captured video from her balcony of a man who appeared to attempt to scare away a polar bear by shooting a gun.

Rebecca Baack, who captured heart-stopping footage of a man dropping his gun as he fled a charging polar bear, later recorded this video on the same trip. In her original post, she said she ...

It was almost like a scene out of a movie as a man dropped everything and jumped onto a snowmobile to escape a charging polar bear in Norway. Dramatic video footage captured by Rebecca Baack ...

Heart-stopping video shows a man drop his gun and then narrowly outrun a polar bear in Norway. While at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month, Rebecca Baack captured video from her ...

Rebecca Baack, who was staying at a local hotel ... out and a lone figure bolting across the snow with a massive polar bear hot on his heels. In the video, the man grips a rifle, then drops ...