A polar bear dragged a Czech tourist out of his tent as he slept on a remote Arctic island, clawing his back before being driven away by gunshots.
"It was going for my head. I used my hands to protect my head," Jakub Moravec said from his hospital bed in the Svalbard archipelago's main town.
He turned over to reveal shallow gashes on his back.
Moravec was among a group of six on a combined ski and snow scooter trip on the remote islands more than 800km north of the Norwegian mainland.
The group was camping north of Longyearbyen.
The attack happened as thousands of tourists descended on Svalbard and the Faeroe Islands ahead of yesterday's rare total solar eclipse.
Moravec told local media he was fine and hoped to be out of the hospital soon. No one else was injured in the attack.
