Fisherman aged 69 became stranded after heavy snowstorm.
What humans see as care is deadly, the most people can do is to observe seals from a safe distance.
Fisherman Vladimir Kristya, 69, got lost on ice in Amur Bay as huge snowstorm engulfed Vladivostok.
He confessed that he and a friend cannibalised another member of their group who died in the extreme cold, say investigators.
Dima ate grass and drank from puddles to survive: he is too traumatised to speak and is covered with ticks and mosquito bites.
In the most extreme conditions, the unimaginable can happen.
Olga Kurochkina has spoken out after hearing confirmation that cannibalised human remains found in the taiga were those of her husband.
A suspected cannibal is to be given a lie detector test this week in a bid to resolve the mysterious case of the fisherman 'eaten by his friends'.
This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.
'And I very much hope that the law in Russian is not an empty vessel, and the people in our country are prohibited from eating one another'.