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Polar Bears

Agent – Louise
AKA – Lou
Age – 14
Destination – Alaska, USA
Mission – Film polar bears in the freezing Arctic

Lou loves adventure and is set the challenge of getting top survival tips for the Life team to help them survive filming in the Arctic. She has no idea when she meets a real Arctic explorer that she is about to become one herself in pursuit of polar bears in the freezing cold winds of Alaska.

How has your experience reporting for Inside Life changed you?
It has definitely made me more aware of the world and just how fragile our environment is. When I saw the Arctic ice melting with my own eyes, instead of just reading about it, it became much more real to me.

What was your scariest moment?
We had a panicky moment when a polar bear decided to investigate us, and we had to dash into the truck, but I wasn't really scared because I was so excited to see it so closely! My scariest was probably the flight from Fairbanks to Kaktovic, which was in a tiny old 20-seater plane. It was really bumpy and my ears were very painful!

What was your most exciting moment?
Landing in Kaktovic – I looked out of the window and I saw complete whiteness, then as we got lower I started to see individual pieces of ice floating on the sea, and that is when it really hit me that I was actually going to land, in the Arctic! There were polar bears on the runway when we landed, and that was when I saw them for the first time, it was incredible.

Tell us the most interesting fact you learnt?
Oh, the amount of camera equipment you need to take to film polar bears in the Arctic for two weeks, six airport trolleys loaded higher than me!