The fourth person ever to reach both poles, Steger is known by many titles—educator, activist, photographer, and explorer. This past Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic is a pioneer in his field, with a series of firsts in polar exploration to his credit. In 1986 he made the first confirmed unsupported journey to the North Pole leading a team of eight people with 50 sled dogs. Two years later he guided the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history, a 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland. In 1995, he led a 1,200-mile expedition between Russia and Ellesmere Island, Canada, via dogsleds and canoe sleds with a team of five educators and scientists. This sweeping project earned Steger the prestigious National Geographic John Oliver La Gorce Medal, awarded only 19 times since the founding of the Society in 1888. Steger joins Roald Amundson, Amelia Earhart, Adm. Robert Peary, and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in this honor.

Most recently in 2004, Steger led a 5-month journey through the Northwest Territories in Canada. Having testified before Congress on polar and environmental issues, he has become a recognized authority on polar environmental concerns.

Baffin Island Expedition 2007
Educators and explorers Ed Viesturs and Richard Branson joined Will Steger and three Inuit hunters on a 1200-mile (1,931-kilometer), four-month-long dogsled expedition across the Canadian Arctic's Baffin Island. The explorers traveled by Inuit dog teams over traditional hunting paths, up frozen rivers, through steep-sided fjords, over glaciers and ice caps, and across the sea ice to reach some of the most remote Inuit villages of the world to document the Inuit's experience with climate change and its local impact on polar bears. Join Steger for highlights of this expedition and an overview of what he and his team learned along the way.

Business Management and Leadership Skills
Steger draws on his own skills as an expedition leader and reflects upon the lessons learned during the Shackleton era, applying them to modern business.

The Crossing of Antarctica
Steger shares the story of Shackleton's Endurance expedition and his own 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition.

Crossing the North and South Poles Via Dog Sled
Steger takes audiences along on his epic adventure across the poles.