Will Steger is a formidable voice calling for understanding and the preservation of the Arctic, and the Earth. Best known for his legendary polar exploration, Steger has traveled tens of thousands of miles by kayak and dogsled over 40 years, leading teams on some of the most significant polar expeditions in history.  

Steger has a record of unprecedented firsts to his name -- the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole without re-supply (1986), the 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland (the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history in 1988), the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (the historic seven month, 3,471-mile International Trans-Antarctica Expedition in 1989-90), and the first and only dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in Canada (1995). In 2007 Steger embarks on two expeditions, To the Ends of the Earth, as experiential tools in his Global Warming 101 initiative. 

Steger received his B.S. in Geology and M.A. in Education at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, and taught science for three years at the secondary level. In 1970, he moved from his birthplace in suburban Minneapolis to the wilderness north of Ely, Minnesota. 

Steger joins Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in receiving the National Geographic Society's prestigious John Oliver La Gorce Medal for "accomplishments in geographic exploration, in the sciences, and for public service to advance international understanding" in 1995. He is the only recipient to be nominated in all three areas.  In 1996 he became the National Geographic Society's first Explorer-in-Residence and received the Explorers Club’s Finn Ronne Memorial Award in 1997.  

Steger has been face-to-face with what we now know to be the gravest environmental threat of our time -- global warming. Sixty-one-year-old Steger has recently formed the Will Steger Foundation, with a personal and professional commitment to foster leadership and cooperation in environmental education and policy.

Will Steger is tireless in his conviction to take his eyewitness accounts and experiences from his explorations and share them with others, in order to better themselves and the environment. 

For further information, contact Nicole Rom, Executive Director, Will Steger Foundation, 612-278-7147, nicole@globalwarming101.com

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