An elevated platform built near the river provides a lookout point for people (and keeps them separated from the hungry predators), so Kirschoffer’s crew took advantage of that for Fat Bear Week by mounting their cameras directly on the structure.

Ten years in, Fat Bear Week has drawn millions of viewers to a live webcam in Alaska to follow along and vote for the chonkiest brown bear at Katmai National Park.

Fat Bear Week in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve has gotten off to a roaring start notwithstanding its lethal and livestreamed foreshadowing Monday. On the first day of voting Wednesday, a juvenile identified as Bear 909jr stood out as a huge crowd favorite as she collected 107,

Voting in Fat Bear Week, a beloved competition hosted by the National Park Service in Alaska, began on Wednesday following postponement due to a deadly fight in which one bear killed another.