The bear was the brother of one who chased skiers in January.
For the second time this year, skiers from the same Romanian resort faced a bear on the slopes and survived to share the video.
The most recent getaway at the Predeal ski resort in the Transylvanian mountains in Romania took place on Tuesday.
Ski instructor Adrian Stoica was about to start teaching a lesson when he captured the video. The instructor said he was not afraid to return to the same ski slope where a bear attacked people on the slopes in January, until, suddenly, another young bear came out of the woods.
“I was just checking the condition of the ski slope before taking my students to a ski lesson,” Stoica, 50, told ABC News.
“While I was skiing down the mountain, a bear suddenly appeared on the slope and a group of at least 15 skiers was trapped at the site,” he said. “I told them to try to chase the bear away by making a noise and screaming. It didn’t work.”
At this point, Stoica was recording the episode while walking down the slope of the trapped skiers.
“I slowly waved my arms, slowly moved away from the group and made the bear come after me because he was too close to the group,” he said. “I just hoped the bear would get tired and go back to the forest.”
While trying to escape the bear, he could see problems ahead: other skiers further down the slope.
“I had to warn them carefully while the bear and I were buzzing past them,” he joked.
Stoica said the most important thing is to “stay calm – bears feel fear”.
Recalling his own video adventure, Stoica told ABC News: “It was a horror, but also a lifetime experience – alone with a wild animal in the jungle.”
The combination of climate change that woke bears from hibernation earlier and the expansion of mountain homes, resorts and ski and hiking trails is likely to bring more people to the bear region. The young bear from this week’s incident – like January’s – paid for his stardom on the Internet by banning his home in Transylvania.
Ion Zaharia, a spokesman for the Brasov County Police Department, told ABC News that the bear in Tuesday’s video was the bear’s brother seen on the slopes in January. And there is at least one more bear in this forest.
“Their mother, she was not seen this year,” said Zaharia.