Footage from Romania shows a large brown bear in hot pursuit of a skier during one of the world’s scariest downhill events.
David Creța, one of several who filmed last week’s frightening encounter, wrote on YouTube that skiers in the lift above tried to whistle and shout to distract the bear, but the animal wasn’t falling for it. Instead, the bear made a beeline for the skier, who came up with a plan on the fly.
“He did a pretty cool move, which is a really safe one when you want to get away from the bear,” skier Angel Somicu, who spotted the same bear an hour earlier, told ABC News. “He dropped his bag off, and, well, the bear was dragged towards the bag.”
Creța wrote on YouTube that the bear stopped chasing the skier and went for the bag. The bear was more than likely looking for food.
“So the skier is safe and OK,” he wrote.
Local police showed up on snowmobiles to scare the bear away!
The bear may be relocated to prevent future encounters.