Wednesday night (August 6th), polar explorer Eric Larsen spoke to a group of teachers and local residents at Wolf Ridge about his historic trip to the North Pole. Eric and his partner Lonnie Dupre were the first people to ever travel to the North Pole during the summer.
During his speech Larsen told his incredible story with humor, pictures, video, and music. Larsen and Dupre traveled for 72 days through a landscape littered with ice pressure ridges, open water, and ice too thin to walk on, but too thin to break through with their canoe.
Larsen is a past Wolf Ridge Student Naturalist (1997) and a former curriculum director at Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in Lanesboro, MN.
Larsen and Dupre plan an unprecedented 2009 exploration to the last great frozen places on Earth. They will travel to the North Pole, South Pole, and Mount Everest in the span of one year in order to document Climate Change and its affects on these places. To learn more you can visit: Eric Larsen Explore, One World Expedition, or Save the Poles.
