“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 Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. He’s going during ice break up, a notoriously fickle time of year when weather can run the gauntlet from blizzards to freakish thaws.
Steger’s margin for error in conditions like these is close to zero, but that’s exactly how the 70-year-old legend likes it. At age 15, Steger kicked off his exploratory career by boating the length of the Mississippi. In the 55 years since, Steger has led or co-led dozens of expeditions, including the first dogsled journey to the North Pole without resupply in 1986; a 1,600-mile traverse of Greenland via dogsled in 1988; and the first dogsled expedition across Antarctica in 1990.”
Get the full story, and read Outside’s Q&A with the explorer, here.
