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Northern exposure: The story of the polar bear and a remote frontier town
In the far north of Manitoba, in the middle of an incredible subarctic landscape, a small community coexists with the mighty polar bear. She is magnificent; imposing in size, quiet – deathly quiet, in fact – and incredibly curious, the female polar bear less than a metre right below me, standing on her hind legs to get a better (read: nice and close) look at me in my high-set, safe and secure viewpoint. There’s an overwhelming sense of great awe from me and my fellow Frontiers North Adventures Tundra Buggy® occupants as we stand nearly face to face with the largest land-based predator on the planet in her arctic tundra home. On her hind legs she’s nearly as tall as our three-metre-high viewing platform.
Driving change in Canada’s polar bear capital
Observing polar bears via an electric vehicle seemed improbable at best. “Sounds like you’ll be a polar bear’s snack,” said my grandmother when she heard about my invitation by Polar Bears International to the sub-Arctic. And she wasn’t the only one who was skeptical — I also questioned the invitation to view these apex predators on an electric-powered Tundra Buggy.
Dream Vacations: Whale and Polar Bear Photo Safari
Last year, I was fortunate enough to meet Martin Gregus, a photographer who shot to international fame with his award-winning photos of polar bears in bright purple fireweed. Since then, I’ve been more anxious than ever to make it out on a photography expedition to try to capture my own (likely nowhere-near-as-good) photos of not just polar bears, but other extremely unique species like wolves, beluga whales, and, if luck is on my side, narwhals (a writer can dream, right?)