Then he saw a second bear on his right, much larger and much closer.
He was on a mountain, deep in the backcountry, admiring the alpine scenery and watching his friend ski down a chute when he saw something coming up a ridge toward him on his left. The avid outdoorsman from Calgary, Alberta, was backcountry skiing with a friend in Montana’s Glacier National Park in early May a few years ago when he came face-to-face with an angry grizzly bear. Her timing was good, however, as bears across the Northern Hemisphere are currently waking up from hibernation, and skiers everywhere should be keeping their eyes (and ears) open. Why Murphy decided to post the fabricated video is a mystery ( she insists the video is real), though it makes yet another compelling argument for not wearing headphones in the mountains. The northern Japanese island of Hokkaido actually has a healthy population of Ussuri brown bears, which can rival Alaskan brown bears in size, but that’s several hundred miles and an ocean channel north of Hakuba. Though Asiatic black bears are found in the area, with several springtime sightings at the resort in recent years, the bear in the video is a brown bear, commonly known as a grizzly in North America.
Murphy was skiing at the Hakuba47 resort on the Japanese island of Honshu.
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