When Dennis Van Denbos surprised the sow and three cubs in 2007, she charged and bit him. In the wake of her death, he reflects on the intense encounter with a bear that later became ardently beloved.
I am standing on the deck of Ponant’s luxury icebreaker expedition ship Le Commandant Charcot in East Greenland with photographer Cindy Miller Hopkins. Right in front of us, a polar bear feeds her ...