A tourist visiting Norway to witness tomorrow 's total eclipse of the sun was mauled by a polar bear as he slept . Jakub Moravec , 37 , had travelled from his home in the Czech Republic to enjoy the natural phenomenon in the scenic surroundings . But he was lucky to escape with relatively minor injuries to his arm , chest and face after the bear broke into his tent and attacked him . Injured : Jakub Moravec , 37 , was hospitalised after the bear attacked him as he slept . Scars : Mr Moravec suffered a number of cuts to his arms , chest , shoulders and face following the attack . The remains of a polar bear , which attacked Mr Moravec on Spitsbergen island after travelling to watch tomorrow 's solar eclipse . Speaking from his hospital bed , Mr Moravec said : 'We were sleeping in the tent , and when I woke up the polar bear was standing on top of me . 'It went straight to my head . Luckily my colleague shot it . ' Moravec said he felt 'happy and fine ' and that he only felt scared afterwards . During the attack , he said his thoughts were only 'to save my head ' . Zuzanna Hakova , who was part of the same Czech tour party , said that her mother had shot the bear three times using a revolver . She said : 'We woke to shouts of 'Bear ! Bear ! ' coming from the second tent . 'We had a rifle on the outside of each tent and we also had a revolver in our tent . 'The ones being attacked had no chance of getting their weapon , so my mother took her revolver and shot at the bear three times . ' Moravec was one of a group of six campers who had travelled to the Svalbard islands in Norway 's Arctic to enjoy the eclipse . Attack : The polar bear attacked the tents were the six campers were sleeping , before being shot dead by authorities . Camp : The remote Svalbard islands are one of only two places on land where the eclipse will be fully visible . He is now being treated in Longyearbyen , the islands ' capital , for injuries to his face and arm . Police spokesman Vidar Arnesen said the group were on a combined ski and snow scooter trip on the remote islands more than 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland . Norwegian media had reported that there are many seals in the area , a food source that attracts the bears . The Svalbard islands are one of only two places on land where the eclipse will be fully visible , along with the Faroe Islands . The moon is expected to pass between Earth and the sun on Friday , with a total eclipse beginning at 10.11am GMT in Svalbard and lasting for three minutes . Scene : The tourists had travelled to the Svalbard islands in Norway 's Arctic to enjoy the eclipse . Isolated : The group were on a combined ski and snow scooter trip on the remote islands more than 500 miles north of the Norwegian mainland when the bear attacked . Approximately 2,000 tourists from around the world are expected to descend on Svalbard for the chance to observe it . Local authorities have repeatedly warned eclipse chasers of the region 's dangerous polar bears . People leaving Svalbard 's inhabited areas are required to be accompanied by an armed local guide or carry a rifle . An estimated total of 3,000 polar bears live in the region , far outnumbering the 2,500 inhabitants . There have been five fatal polar bear attacks in Svalbard in the past four decades . The most recent attack occurred in 2011 , when 17-year-old British student Horatio Chapple was killed whilst on a school trip .
Jakub Moravec transformed from polar bear to the total eclipse . But polar bears fled as he slept in remote islands north of Norway . Moravec , 37 , was lucky to survive with minor injuries to his head and arms . Fellow camper fired revolver at bear , who fled and was later killed .