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In March 1990, Will Steger completed what no man had ever before attempted: the crossing of Antarctica on foot. Lured by the challenge and the beauty of Earth's last great wilderness, and determined to focus the world's attention on the frozen continent now that its ecological future hangs in the balance, Steger and his International Trans-Antartica Team had performed an extraordinary feat of endurance.

Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster

First Edition Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright 1991
ISBN: 0-394-58714-6

Lucid, passionate, informed and graphic, Saving the Earth is at once a report on the state of the enviroment, an encouraging call to action, and a source of practical imformation for those who wish to act.

Saving the Earth details withe causes and effects of the major environmental threats-the history- of each and its damage to the planet-and then offers solutions. Here are inspiring examples of how concerned individuals have effected chnage, as well as specific steps and resources (telephone numbers, addresses, publications, organizations) to aid individuals, communities, small businesses and large corporations in tackling the challenge ahead.

Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster

First Edition Alfred A. Knopg, Publisher, New York
Copyright 1990
ISBN:0-679-73026-5

The arctic sits on top of the world, and Antarctica is at the bottom. Although both are very cold and covered with ice, they are very different. Antarctica is a large continent covered with a sheet of ice two miles thick. The Arctic is an ocean two miles deep, surrounded by the land of eight nations.

The Arctic ocean is covered with a layer of ice eight to twelve feet thick. It is like a bucket of water with a thin layer of dust on the surface - the bucket represents the Arctic Ocean, the layer of dust the ice. In the spring and summer the ice breaks up and the ice is in constant motion, moved by the wind current and the movements of the ocean.

Major wind and water currents moves the surface ice great distances. When Will Steger traveled by dogsled to the North Pole during his historic 1986 expedition, he left a capsule there. Two years later it was found - on the coast of northern Ireland.

It can be extremely cold in the Arctic, with temperatures in the -70s and winds that blow more than 50 miles an hour!

Will Steger and Jon Bowermaster

First Edition Scholastic, Inc.
Copyright 1997
ISBN:0-590-84861-5

On March 7, 1986, the Steger International Polar Expedition, made up of seven men and one woman, set out by dogsled to reach the North Pole. In a deliberate throwback to the early explorers, they sought to complete the journey without resupply. They would be entirely reliant on the three tons of supplies they brought with them; there would be no airlifts with rested dogs, new equipment, or extra food and fuel. In part the chose this approach to shed light on the historically intriguing and heavily debated question of whether Robert Peary reached the Pole in a similar manner in 1909.

Will Steger with Paul Schurke

First Edition Publisher: Times Books
Copyright 1987
ISBN: 0-8129-1704-9