Dr Huw Lewis-Jones is an expedition leader across the polar regions. The academic, who teaches at Falmouth University in Cornwall, has now travelled to the north pole 12 times, and this photo was taken in 2018, “high in the Arctic Ocean, north of the Franz Josef Land archipelago, in the frozen pack ice”.
The polar bear Lewis-Jones captured with his iPhone 7 was searching for seals, which haul themselves out on to the floe or come up in the breathing holes. The bear was checking out their ship, too: “They’re often really curious. This beautiful animal stayed with us for over an hour.”
