Will Steger
Will Steger
Will Stegeris 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 Polein 1986, the 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland - the longest unsupported dogsled expedition in history at that time in 1988, the historic 3,471-mile International Trans-Antarctic Expedition - the first dogsled traverse of Antarctica, and the International Arctic Project - the first...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
CountryUnited States of America
An incredible experience and humbling all the way through.
If we could cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent over the next 20 years we could perhaps prevent this. If we continue burning fossil fuels as we are today in the very near future (the ice shelf) will slip in (the ocean).
Having traveled for 45 years in the Arctic, what I've seen the last 15 years is shocking. We need to finally face up that we have an issue here and we need to get back to solutions.
We knew this was happening 15 years ago. But it's only been in the past few months that the information has been spread by the media.
I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.
It is always hard to do the double meets in a weekend.
It doesn't really matter what he swims, he'll win it.
While we know it is necessary to raise fees to maintain quality, we still are sensitive to the effects on rising costs on students and their families. We are creating and funding programs to keep school affordable.
We definitely came back really strong on Saturday and doing meets back-to-back and doing the same thing and going just as fast, if not slower, on the second day shows we are going to be ready for the MAC championships.
Words cannot express how we felt. We were all very excited.There were cheers and tears, hugs and kisses.
I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.
He's just very versatile. We can put him in basically (any event) and he has no problem with that and doesn't complain about it. He's good at everything.
He had gotten second place, gotten his best time. It was the coolest thing in the world, because he beat a kid that he never beats. Then we find out he had gotten disqualified. It was awful.