Teen hunter found trapped on ice floe

Courtesy Outdoor Recreation News  Mon, 11/09/2009 - 22:17

Battling hypothermia and freezing skin, a trapped teenage hunter was forced to shoot and kill a polar bear as he waited for more than a day to be rescued from a large chunk of drifting sea ice in the Canadian North.


 

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