Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 14:00:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: wolfgang brinck <nativewater@yahoo.com>
Subject: baidarka kayaking with polar bears
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
Don't feed the bears,
Wolfgang
*** Norwegians imperiled by polar bear
OSLO, Norway (AP) - Two Norwegian adventurers spent 12
days stranded
on an arctic island because a hungry polar bear
destroyed their two
kayaks. Jens Abild and Simen Havig-Gjelseth set off in
mid-June on a
700-mile trek around Spitsbergen, the main island of
Norway's far
north Svalbard archipelago, the Nordlys newspaper
reported Tuesday.
After almost two months of paddling through the icy
waters, they had
less than 190 miles to go Aug. 9, when they were
unloading supplies
into a borrowed cabin and a huge polar bear caught
scent of the dried
food in their kayaks. The bear ripped the boats into
tiny pieces to
get at the free meal. On Saturday, a Norwegian coast
guard helicopter
spotted the two men waving frantically and arranged
their rescue.
Both were in good condition. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560855783-e2c
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