Kurile Lake

In the far north-east of the Eurasian continent stretches a land about 470,000 square kilometers in size: the Kamchatka Peninsula. Only three hundred thousand people inhabit this Russian region where the frozen tundra, the coniferous forests, mountains and volcanoes dominate a landscape which, in some places, has never been trodden by man.  A wild place far from civilization, far from everything. One people rule this immense land, and they have just woken up from a long sleep: the brown bears.

The start of the melt announces the resurgence of life in Kamchatka. So, from the mountains and the forests where they took shelter, from the valleys, from everywhere, the bears walk for days, following the trails left by generations of bears before them, heading to the best lake for fishing: Kurile Lake. Millions of salmon come to Kurile Lake from the Pacific Ocean to spawn in its fertile waters which will provide their young with abundant food. During summer Kurile Lake contains the densest assembly of bears to be found anywhere on Earth.  All hungry for salmon.