Welcome back to scary bear attacks! Today’s episode takes us to the remote Siberian wilderness. A beautiful and wild place that we have visited in prior episodes, the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia’s far east. The area is known as the Kronotsky Wildlife Reserve not far from where our episode discussing Igor and Olga Moskalyova occurred. The geography of the peninsula is thick with alder and other scrub brush as well as groves of pine, fir and birch trees. Vitaly Nikolayenko was a 66 year old bear researcher. He was a self taught naturalist and wildlife photographer. This is his 33 year living with brown bears and documenting their mating rituals, social interactions and feeding habits. The bears tolerated him and his intrusion into their environment although he had to tumble down cliffs and climb trees to avoid charging bears at times. He was a se ...