Inching the boat closer, they were finally able to identify what type of creature they this was. Not one of them expected what they discovered: it was a juvenile Arctic fox!
The Arctic fox primarily lives inland, away from the coasts. So what was this poor little fellow doing way out here in the middle of the sea, alone on an iceberg no less?
“It had probably got stuck out there looking for a meal,” Mallory later explained to boredpanda.com. “Cliff says he thinks he got out there to check out a bit of meat on the ice and it broke apart, sending him out to sea.”