A Photographer Spent 117 Hours In The Severe Cold To Get These Incredible Shots

She also photographed bears, penguins. As a child, Gilardini had a large collection of teddy bears and all sorts of stuffed animals. I was raised in Switzerland at a time where no bears were to be found but I never questioned why I loved the bears so much, she said. People always ask me if I'm afraid of bears because I spend so much time photographing them, but actually they calm me down. She has never had a bad encounter with one, she said.