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From Tasha van Zandt’s After Antarctica (2021), a documentary film about polar explorer Will Steger. Via Colossal.

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Will Steger in his cabin by Hans211 at Inmortavilizado

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When Will Steger was 15 years old, he and his brother piloted an old motorboat down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans. At 17, he journeyed to the Arctic. At 41, he became the first man in history to travel unsupported to the North Pole and come back alive. He's traveled across Antarctica by sled (another first), hopped freights, and found his purpose at a mountain monastery.

Will Steger is, if not the most interesting man in the world, almost certainly The Most Interesting Man in Northern Minnesota. So why'd Tim Pawlenty leave him out in the cold? MJ's Tim Murphy reports.

Photo courtesy of the Will Steger Foundation.