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

Every year, from mid-February to mid-March, a grand event happens in the Wapusk National Park in Canada: polar bears come out from their caves with their four-month-old babies for the first time.

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.