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.