A Canadian radar technician was mauled to death by a pair of polar bears as he took photos of them while working at a remote Arctic outpost, it emerged this week.

Christopher Best, 34, left the safety of the Brevoort Island facility the day after he arrived to work there, so that he could take photos of a bear on the grounds, a report into his Aug. 8 death revealed.

He had walked past a sign warning employees to be on the lookout for bears — and reassured his worried parents he was OK when they asked him hours earlier about photos of the bears he was posting online, they told CTV News

Christopher Best, 34, had arrived at the remote Arctic base just a day before he was mauled to death. Fillatre's Funeral Homes

“Chris said, ‘Well, yeah, they’re not close to us,’” his mother, Shelly

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