SURVIVAL
almost-anything
The shredded tent after the polar bear encounter.
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polarOminous
bear sigsightingh in these parts.
Nightight-time gave way to dawn without
incident aa nd by 2pm our aircraft arrived
and we wew re soon safely airborne.
As I wrw ite this, I’m on my way to
Greenlaandn again.Here’s my revised‘bear
aware’ chhecklist:
waddled out of sighsig ht.t.Ten 1. Have aa gun and practice how to use it.
minutes later we fired a flare into the skyy Ifyf yoouu haavve to shoot a bear, shoot it, shoot
and it illuminated the bear 200m00m awayy of the socksks it again aa nnd shoot again to be absolutely
from camp;then he faded intoo the fog. might have been aa sure it’s ded ad.I will sleep next to my
We maintained an all-night vigil. sufficient deterrent.Someone seriously loaded rifle.
Skis staked around the camp made a suggested we could wrap the bear in 2.Set up an early warning perimeter
fence and we lit our camp stoves so we my paraglider and set it alight! Most camp alarm – we’re using trip wires
could throw petrol on them to make an annoyingly, we banged metal objects attached to rape alarms.
explosive fire.We gathered up dirty together until daybreak.There was no 3.Don’t set up your tents in a circle;if
socks and pulled them over our ski poles room for complacency – we didn’t have the bear is in the middle and you have to
so we could dunk them in petrol and a gun.One wasn’t required in this area of shoot it, your teammates in the opposite
make flaming torches, although the smell Greenland as there had NEVER been a tent could get caught in the cross fire.
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