A dramatic video captured a man fleeing a charging polar bear in Norway after dropping his gun and hopping onto a snowmobile. 

The incident reportedly unfolded in Pyramiden – an Arctic town in the archipelago of Svalbard – in late April. 

"I was woken up around midnight with someone saying there was a bear," Rebecca Baack, who was staying at a hotel, told Storyful. "A staff member was trying to scare it away when the bear charged him." 

Footage taken by Baack begins with the sounds of...

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