In his book, Bear: Spirit of the Wild, the veteran photographer Paul Nicklen relates stories of hiding out for days and weeks at a time, returning without a single usable image. So I’m in good ...

This bear isn't what he's looking for. He's after a more revered and rare creature: what the Gitga'at call mooksgm'ol, the spirit bear, a walking contradiction—a white black bear. Neither albino ...