The breath he would not believe the smell of that bear's breath, he's dragging me and I just

I'm like a voice came to me and said, you know, you're going to die.

Polar bears.

The grand beasts of the Arctic are one of the most fearsome predators on earth.

The males can weigh half a ton, stand eight feet tall on their hind legs, and possess

enough power to get all that mass moving at 25 miles per hour.

Few sights in nature will inspire the sense of panic and doom as seeing a polar bear

loping across the ice headed your way.

They are aggression sheathed in fur, spiked with two-inch claws and armed with teeth designed

to catch and hold slippery prey.

As a rule, few animals survive encounters with these hyper carnivores.

Matt Dyer is that rare exception.

I made a decision to survive in that survival mode.

The idea of dying wasn't in my head.

I knew immediately it was the worst case scenario.

I was in a fight for my life situation.

Whenever you walk out on these trails, you're in their house.

I'm Louisa Almanes, and you're listening to Out-Alive by Backpacker.

In each episode of this podcast, we'll bring you real stories of real people who survived

the unsurvivable.

I saw the ropes sip through the repell ring, and I couldn't do anything.

Learn what went wrong, what went right, and how you can escape if the worst case scenario

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