Bigger and better things . . . .

Our former road manager Elizabeth Andre has gone on to bigger and better things.

In November Polar Explorer Will Steger chose Elizabeth
Andre to join his 2007 Arctic expedition. The
expedition will travel for three months by dogsled
over mountainous terrain and sea ice along the
1200-mile east coast of Baffin Island, visiting five
Inuit villages along the way. The purpose of the
expedition will be to document the effects of Global
Warming as experienced by the Inuit peoples and to
educate the general public about Global Warming. The
team’s findings will be the subject of a documentary
film, an interactive website, a K-12 curriculum,
community outreach and education and media-coverage.
Steger chose Andre because of her background in
Environmental Education and her experience leading
dogsled expeditions for Outward Bound Schools.

Steger has led the most significant feats in dogsled
exploration such as 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
(1988), the historic 3,471-mile International
Trans-Antarctica Expedition - the first dogsled
traverse of Antarctica (1989-90), the International
Arctic Project - the first and only dogsled traverse
of the Arctic Ocean from Russia to Ellesmere Island in
Canada (1995). Historic feats for which Steger has
received numerous honors and recognitions among others
include: Explorers Club Finne Ronne Memorial Award
(1997), National Geographic Society's First
Explorer-In-Residence (1996) and National Geographic
Society's John Oliver La Gorce Medal for
"accomplishments in geographic exploration, in the
sciences, and for public service to advance
international understanding" (1995). Steger joins
Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen and
Jacques Cousteau in receiving this prestigious award.
Steger has been invited twice to testify before
Congress on polar and environmental issues. He founded
the Global Center of Environmental Education at
Hamline University in 1991 and the World School for
Adventure Learning at the University of St. Thomas in
1993. Steger is the author of four books: Over the Top
of the World, Crossing Antarctica, North to the Pole
and Saving the Earth.


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Elizabeth K. Andre