The latest challenge for fans of extreme hunting is an expedition to the Arctic Circle. Jerome Taylor reports

Hunters pay tens of thousands of dollars to kill polar bears in the Arctic

Boyd Warner treasures the memory of killing his first polar bear. It was 2003. For days he had stalked his prey on the frozen wastelands north of Pond Inlet, one of Canada’s most isolated Inuit communities deep inside the Arctic Circle. His dog team picked up the scent of an eight-foot adult male and they hurtled over the ice: the hunt was on.