You can tell that is a young, VERY HUNGRY bear; he has very little body weight and it’s high winter. He staggers a lot. That’s also likely why he suddenly broke off; the calorie cost of continuing simply became too great a gamble.
That guide/instructor is quite a fellow; I’d love to buy him a beer (or whatever).
I know you are making a joke, but Romanian calls them “urs”, plural “urșii”, which is pretty standard for Romance languages (compare French “ours” or Italian “orso”. (I was on a bit of a Romanian language kick for a while in preparation for a trip that supposedly was going to be last fall that didn’t happen for obvious reasons).
Geez the guy sounds calm. Skiing backwards to escape a bear, being the bait to protect the group. Geez.
I don’t speak Romanian but is he saying “No Socialism” at around 6:20? Like, sorry bear, you can’t feed on us like Ceaușescu did.
Absolutely gorgeous.
I don’t know, I kind of admire the lengths these folks went to in staging Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale in an actual winter environment, using actual bears.
You can hear the nervousness in his voice and the nervous chuckles when he talks to other people on the slope
I don’t know whether anthropomorphism is the right term for this, but when it laid down in the snow at the start it made me think of a dog.
Couldn’t stop thinking of it as a big bouncy puppy for the rest of the video.
An alternative strategy, which would require some training, would be to get all the skiiers to gather together in a schiltron or hedgehog formation with their ski poles out. I’m no expert, but I doubt a hungry young bear would want to attack that. This assumes you have more than 7, 8 people.
Exactly 
I love a joke that’s not really a joke.
I hope you get to follow through on your trip soon! I’ve seen parts of Slovakia and Hungary and would love to make it to Romania some day…
I’ve read that bears can run up to 35 miles per hour. The impressive thing to me is how the skiing instructor was able to continue videoing the bear chasing him while staying on the course. How did he do that?
Keep your beer. Buy him some bear-repellent.
It looks like he’s skiing backwards from the speed. The run looks like a green run (groomed with very little incline for beginners), so backwards skiing is very simple for someone of his ability. (Ski instructors often ski backwards when they are teaching beginning skiers.)
I dunno; his voice made it sound an awful like a stiff belt of his favorite libation might very well be in order ^^’ .
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