I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group 2006 Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award 2007 and the National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award 2007. Will Steger (born August 27 1944 in Richfield Minnesota) is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some of the most significant feats in the field of dogsled expeditions; such as the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole (without re-supply though his return trip was by airplane drastically reducing the supplies required for the trip) in 1986 the 1600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland - the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history during 1988 the historic 3471-mile International Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (1989–90) and the International Arctic Project - the first and only dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in Canada during 1995. Wilderness Inquiry was inspired and enabled by Will Steger's outdoor recreation community stewardship working in collaboration with Hamline's interdisciplinary CGEE programs.

Will Steger (born August 27 1944 in Richfield Minnesota) is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some of the most significant feats in the field of dogsled expeditions; such as the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole (without re-supply though his return trip was by airplane drastically reducing the supplies required for the trip) in 1986 the 1600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland - the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history during 1988 the historic 3471-mile International Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica (1989–90) and the International Arctic Project - the first and only dogsled traverse of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in Canada during 1995. Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group 2006 Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award 2007 and the National Geographic Adventure Lifetime Achievement Award 2007.