Horatio Chapple, 17, an aspiring medical student, was killed when the animal rampaged into the tent in which he and his friends were sleeping on a glacier in Svalbard, Norway. His friends, Patrick Flinders, 16, and Scott Smith, 17, were injured fighting off the bear, as were the expedition guides, Michael Reid, 29, and Andrew Ruck, 27.
Patrick is said to have punched the bear on the nose before it was shot dead by other members of the group. Horatio’s grandfather, Sir John Chapple, 80, was the head of the Army from 1989 to 1992, the former governor of Gibraltar and the former president of the British Schools Exploring Society, which organised the trip.
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That bear picked quite the well connected victim. Could be less love for polar bears among the UK upper class types… though on the BBC I see they are trying to blame it all on AGW.
“Incidents like this, however, could become more common.
The reason is climate change.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14422118
I think the reason was that they didn’t have trip wires connected to flares or fireworks as people do who live with the threat all the time. There had been a warning from the local government about it not long before
Andy
Hey I thought they had strict gun laws up there in Norway.
Good for the people of the UK. They need to send more environmentalist to observe the conditions in the Arctic region and put themselves in these situations.
Incidents like this will become more common because BBC is promoting BS such as this group of explorers. Someone in the group should be prosecuted for shooting a member of a protected species. The group being there were the cause of the attack.
take a bow, warmists.
So many eco-nazis: so few bears.
Just kids out camping.
Who are being groomed to become eco-nazis no doubt.
I’m far too cynical to care Steve. That’s a shame, I never used to be cynical.