Can you imagine spotting a grizzly when you’re out enjoying nature? It would be heart-racing enough to spot one from a distance but one that casually walks next to your outdoor chairs, literally feet from you?
Well, that’s exactly what happened to one photographer with ice in his veins, as this enormous grizzly casually stopped by and sat down next to him.
This is a short clip but one that starts with a jaw-dropping, eerily peaceful but tense moment. In the background, you can see some snow-covered mountains with a large, open green space just ahead of a, wait for it—huge grizzly bear.
Almost comically, there is a lawn chair on the right side of the screen, as if the bear had been invited for a daytime hangout. Seemingly unbothered by the man’s presence off to his right, the bear looks around and casually walks forward toward the rushing river just below.
He stops to take in the sight, the way a tourist would. At this point, he is a mere couple of feet from the man’s lawn chair and the man. Its size can be fully appreciated at this angle—and so can its mighty claws.
As if to alert the man that it’s in no rush to hurt him, the grizzly yawns slowly and lazily. It keeps looking out into the rushing river with heaving breaths as if it has just had its heart broken.
Attributing human emotion to a bear should be left for cartoons, but the scene is much too rare and begins to feel as though they both needed this time away with a friend out by the cleansing aura of rushing waters.
The cameraman holds the camera steady, and the grizzly continues looking out onto the water, not acknowledging the presence of the man or the little site he’s created for himself. White birds fly in the background as the bear decides this is a nice place to rest.
The bear sits back and places its front palms just ahead of his torso, resting on the ground. Suddenly, he stands up and starts walking toward the man. The man responds quickly, turning the camera and saying “hey, hey, hey” to the bear.
The bear, disinterested, walks around the man and away from him. At the end of the short clip, the camera captures another camera pointed out toward the water where somewhere around 10 grizzly bears can be spotted. This camera man probably wasn’t counting on such a close encounter, but his nerves of steel paid off as he earned some truly epic close up footage of this enormous bear.
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