In late March, polar explorer Will Steger will embark on one of his trickiest expeditions to date: a 200-mile, month-long solo voyage through Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and ...
NEAR ELY, MINN. — Volunteers sloshed through ankle-deep lake-water, an assembly line sending large blocks of ice splashing and sliding to a pileup near the shore where they would later become the base ...
@mnhs.info and @steger.center are hosting events at @minnesotahistorycenter this week on the legacy of legendary polar ...
Steger is a legendary explorer and advocate for nature, and he will be speaking at a forthcoming event hosted by WCCO's Esme Murphy.
Polar explorer Will Steger has encountered deep snow and some slow going in the first month of his planned 70-day, 1,000-mile solo trek from Black Lake in northern Saskatchewan to Baker Lake near ...
WILLMAR -- Will Steger proved modern day adventurers can still capture the public's attention when he led six men and 36 dogs on the first ever crossing of the Antarctic continent on foot. They ...
Steger led a crew on a heralded 56-day dog-sled journey to the North Pole in 1986, the first of its kind to make it with only the supplies the team carried with it. He repeated the feat two years ...
“This is the suit I wore for the Trans-Antarctica expedition”, Will Steger says nonchalantly as he flops an insulated onesie covered with sponsor patches on the crude table, his breath visible in the ...
WILLMAR -- Polar explorer Will Steger is coming to Willmar to let people in west central Minnesota know how they can help reverse global warming. Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center and other ...
Earlier this week, Will Steger was thinking about the canoe-sled he lashed to the nether reaches of a spruce tree in the Canadian Barren Lands. That was last May and the tree was part of a small oasis ...
When Will Steger goes on spring break, he knows how to avoid crowds. He heads in a familiar direction — North. Steger, who lives in Ely, Minn., and has led successful dogsled expeditions to the North ...