Kamchatka, is a Russian peninsula , comparable in size to Japan, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Bering and Okhotskoe Seas. A desolate area of outstanding natural beauty with geysers and lakes, where the cold weather means that reaching the region in winter is virtually imposible by road, helicopteurs rule the roost.
A consequence of this isolation is that Kamchatka is also home to the densest population of brown bears in the world. Each lake, river and stream is populated by several families of bears, they share the vast quantities of migrating wild salmon with official and illegal...