That icicle hanging beneath BJ Kirschhoffer’s nose is exactly what you think it is. Polar Bear researchers officially call them snotsicles. And it’s what you get when it’s about 50 below zero and you’re outside for eight hours straight. The mission is to record what few have ever witnessed: hibernating Polar Bears emerging from their dens with their cubs. Human beings are not made to survive in 50 below zero. Neither are video cameras. But the ingenuity of BJ Kirschhoffer, Director of Field Operations for Polar Bears International, and the research team at Brigham Young University, helped capture one of the most remarkable scenes you’ll ever see in the natural world. You can view it exclusively on CNN by clicking to the rest of this story.
TALES FROM THE CRYPT
When someone begins a sentence with the words: “Most dens I’ve been in …” you know you’re talking to a Polar Bear expert.