Will Steger, the renowned explorer, said staff and students from his Steger Wilderness Center evacuated due to the wildfires.

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 ...

NEAR ELY, MINN. — Volunteers sloshed through ankle-deep lake-water, an assembly line sending large blocks of ice splashing and sliding to a pileup near the shore where they would later become the base ...

Polar explorer Will Steger has encountered deep snow and some slow going in the first month of his planned 70-day, 1,000-mile solo trek from Black Lake in northern Saskatchewan to Baker Lake near ...

Will Steger, 64, has spent much of his adult life traveling through the Arctic regions and Antarctica and urging nations and individuals to respond to global warming and other threats to Earth's ...

When Will Steger goes on spring break, he knows how to avoid crowds. He heads in a familiar direction -- North. Ely's Steger, who has led successful dogsled expeditions to the North Pole and across ...

Steger led a crew on a heralded 56-day dog-sled journey to the North Pole in 1986, the first of its kind to make it with only the supplies the team carried with it. He repeated the feat two years ...

Earlier this week, Will Steger was thinking about the canoe-sled he lashed to the nether reaches of a spruce tree in the Canadian Barren Lands. That was last May and the tree was part of a small oasis ...

When Will Steger goes on spring break, he knows how to avoid crowds. He heads in a familiar direction — North. Steger, who lives in Ely, Minn., and has led successful dogsled expeditions to the North ...