10-year-old girl from Whale Cove, Nunavut, takes down her first polar bear [Video]

Ava Nipisar lay in the snow, watching quietly from behind a rifle outside of her home community of Whale Cove, Nunavut. Through the scope, Nipisar watched a polar bear slowly making its way over the thin sea ice. 

It took more than an hour for the bear to make it to solid land, and Nipisar was able to take her shot.

In the end, it took 10 shots for the 10-year-old to down the large animal. 

When she walked up to it, Nipisar started to cry. She said they were happy tears. 

“Because I know my grandma’s watching me killing the bear,” Nipisar said. 

Her grandmother passed away from cancer a month ago. Ava said she knows her grandmother would be proud of her.

Sean Nipisar, Ava’s father, …