The bear was the brother of one who chased skiers in January.
For the second time this year, skiers at the same Romanian resort confronted a bear on the slopes and lived to share the video.
The most recent escape at the Predeal ski resort in the Transylvanian mountains of Romania took place on Tuesday.
Ski instructor Adrian Stoica was about to give a class when he recorded the video. The instructor said he was not afraid to return to the same ski slope where a bear loaded people on the slopes in January, until another young bear suddenly came out of the woods.
“I just checked the condition of the ski slopes before taking my students for a ski lesson,” Stoica, 50, told ABC News.
“When I was skiing down the mountain, a bear suddenly appeared on the slope and a group of at least 15 skiers were trapped on the spot,” he said. ‘I told them to try to chase the bear away by making noise and screaming. It did not work. ‘
Back then, Stoica was recording the episode as he moved down the slopes of the trapped skiers.
“I swung my arms slowly, moving slowly out of the group and letting the bear come behind me as he was really close to the group,” he said. “I was just hoping the bear would get tired and go to the forest again.”
When he tries to escape from the bear, he sees problems: other skiers further down the slope.
“I had to warn them carefully as the bear and I whispered past them,” he joked.
Stoica said the most important thing was to ‘stay calm – bears feel the fear’.
Looking back on his own video adventure, Stoica told ABC News: “It was a horror, but also an experience of a lifetime – alone with a wild animal in the desert.”
The combination of the earlier hibernation’s achievement of climate change and the expansion of mountain houses, resorts and ski and hiking trails is likely to bring more people to the mountains. The young bear from this week’s incident – like the one in January – paid his internet stars with a ban from his home in Transylvania.
Ion Zaharia, a spokesman for the Brasov police station, told ABC News the bear in Tuesday’s video was the brother of the bear seen on the slopes in January. And there is at least one more bear in these forests.
“Their mother, she has not been seen at all this year,” Zaharia said.