Twenty five years ago this May, a team including team members from Canada, New Zealand and Minnesotans Will Steger, Paul Schurke and Ann Bancroft, reached the North Pole after enduring 56 days and a thousand miles across fractured, shifting sea ice in temperatures that dipped below -70 degrees Fahrenheit. Their epic ski and dogsled trek with an 8-member, 49-dog crew was a deliberate throwback to the days of the early explorers that captured the imagination and riveted the attention of people around the world. Their accomplishment, the first confirmed trek to reach the Pole without resupply, was deemed by National Geographic "a landmark in polar exploration.