Terrifying moment man runs for his life from rampaging polar bear

Terrifying footage has captured the desperate charge of a man running for his life from a lumbering polar bear on a remote Arctic island.

Residents of the tiny village of Pyramiden had been trying to scare off bears after one was spotted sniffing around residents' snowmobiles.

But a harrowing clip from the island of Svalbard showed the moment one brazen creature, undeterred even by a volley of gunshots, turned and gave chase.

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