Local story

Up there, just a few meters away from the most northern church on Earth (on the right), and near an unique restaurant based and designed with original pieces and tools of an old mine, active decades ago, on top of that beautiful mountain, two girls were attacked by a polar bear while skiing some months ago. One of them managed to escape and rolled down as fast as she could, leaving her lifeless friend behind.

 

Polar bears have always been a danger in the archipelago (more accurate, humans, have been a danger here) but in the last years the risk of meeting them in the close surroundings have increased, and all the talks and warnings about global warming that we don't pay attention down on land are a palpable reality here.

 

Their main diet is based on seals and it's become harder to catch them, as the ice of the island has shrunk and become thinner and breaking up sooner, they can't find seals on the ice so they need to go inland in search of food, or swim longer distances, having found many of them malnourished.

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