Just days old, this abandoned seal crawled towards the photographer for help minutes before being killed by a polar bear.
Simon Roberts said the pup didn’t stand a chance against its predator as its mother could not offer any protection as warming temperatures meant there was not enough deep snow to dig a shelter.
The retired surgeon, from Chapel Stile in Cumbria, captured these shots on Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean halfway between Norway and the North Pole.
