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This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... He had spotted a polar bear approaching in the distance under the midnight sun. We ran to the bow of the boat ...

which comes with a $10,000 prize and a trip to National Geographic headquarters in Washington, D.C. Souders' original captions reads: "A polar bear peers up from beneath the melting sea ice on ...