Man sprints for his life as Polar Bear chases him
Rebecca Baack was staying at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month when she captured the video from her balcony. Credit: Adobe / 7NEWS/Rebecca Baak
An eyewitness has captured the terrifying moment a man desperately sprints away from a charging polar bear on a remote Arctic island in the town Pyramiden.
Rebecca Baack was staying at a hotel in Svalbard for a ski expedition last month when she captured a video from her balcony of a man who appeared to attempt to scare away a polar bear by shooting a rifle.
After the rifle was fired, the polar bear lumbers towards the man across what looks like a car park as the man quickly sprints away over a wall and into deep snow.
The man makes a bee-line for a snowmoblie which is luckily only parked a few meters away from him and jumps on it, throwing his rifle in the snow just before the bear reaches him.
As the man zooms off to safety the bear stops for a moment then continues to chase in the wake of the snowmobile.
After realising it's not going to catch the snowmobile the polar bear sits for a moment, looking slightly defeated.
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