The ‘aggressive’ bear charged a group of children and teachers in Bella Coola, with police and conservation officers now searching for the animal

In a heart-stopping tale of survival, Vince and Garrett Kalkowski, a father-son duo from Cody, Wyoming, narrowly escaped a charging grizzly during a hunting trip near Meeteetse. The younger Kalkowski’s quick thinking and a Glock 20 proved to be the difference between life and death. Here’s how it all unfolded.

The footage is extraordinary in that grizzly bears hibernate during the winter, when the Yukon receives most of its snow. So it’s rare to document a grizzly at close range during a blizzard and before it has shaken off the snow.