Join Jon Bowermaster and his team as they explore the Antarctic Peninsula for five weeks. Departing from Puerto Williams, Chile, by sailboat on New Year’s Eve the team will stop at King George Island, pick up its cached sea kayaks and spend all of January exploring the Weddell Sea from sea level. The goal is to get as close to the Larsen Ice Shelf as possible, to document how the ice and sea that surrounds Antarctica’s most exposed corner is changing. Tune in to www.Antarctica2008.com / www.jonbowermaster.com for dispatches.

Educators and explorers Will Steger, John Stetson, Elizabeth Andre and Abby Fenton will join three Inuit hunters on a 1200-mile, four-month-long dogsled expedition across the Canadian Arctic’s Baffin Island. The expedition will be traveling with Inuit dog teams over traditional hunting paths, up frozen rivers, through steep-sided fjords, over glaciers and ice caps, and across the sea ice to reach some of the most remote Inuit villages of the world.

In March 2008, six emerging leaders, ages 21–28 from four countries, including the US, Norway, Great Britain and Canada, will join Will Steger on a 1,400 mile dogsled expedition across Ellesmere Island, in collaboration with National Geographic Society, the International Polar Year and the Royal Norwegian Embassy.

Our team will follow in the footsteps of legendary polar explorers: Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Frederick Cook and Norwegian legend, Otto Sverdrup. An area considered the front lines of global warming, they will visit ice shelves that have collapsed and those that are on the brink of collapse to document and bear witness to the disintegrating ice shelves, the retreating glaciers and the destruction of wildlife habitat. Crossing fjords, mountain ranges, ice shelves, ice caps and sea ice, the Expedition Team will record the impact global warming has had on the third largest island in the Canadian Arctic and northernmost tip of the North American continent, only 490 miles from the North Pole. The 2008 Ellesmere Island Expedition will inspire and mobilize the next generation of adventurers and eyewitnesses to global warming.

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