They say that the most dangerous place in the world is between a mother bear and her cubs.  I’d imagine it’s not much better to be trapped on an iceberg as it drifts out to sea.  Well, an unlucky teenage hunter found that out the hard way after he found himself trapped on an iceberg with a polar bear mother and her two cubs.  The fact that he survived the combination of a scared bear and the freezing Arctic Sea is nothing short of a miracle.

The 17-year-old Inuit boy was on a hunting expedition with his 67-year-old uncle.  The two got separated after one of their snowmobiles broke down and the younger of the two went off to get help.  He was crossing an ice floe when the iceberg broke away from the group and started drifting out to sea, leaving the teen trapped with the bear and her cubs.

Unfortunately, as bears are wont to do in that sort of setting, it got aggressive to defend its babies and the youngster had to shoot it.  What happened to the cubs wasn’t reported, but the young man survived his ordeal with only mild hypothermia and a bit of frostbite.  He’s lucky he didn’t drift out to sea.

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