Eric Larsen

Home Base: Grand Marais, MN

Current Quiver: XCD Pinnacle, XCD GT

Recent Accomplishments: First ever summer expedition to the North Pole 2006, South Pole expedition 2008.

Recent Media: '2008 Outside Magazine ‘Eco All Star’, Outside Gear Guide ‘What I Bring’. Features in Rock and Ice, National Geographic Adventure, Men’s Journal, Rock and Ice, Chicago Tribune, Wired, Mother Jones, NPR, Milwaukee Journal, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Fox News, CBS Good Morning, The Tonight Show… to name a few.

I consider myself a fairly average person. I’m average height, average intelligence. There really isn’t anything that’s too unusual about myself. Except for two things: I love camping and I love winter. And it’s been my pursuit of those two things that have led me to some of the more remote corners of the globe.

“Give me snow, give me dogs; you can keep the rest.” Knud Rassmussen, famed Greenland expeditioner once said. I tend to agree - although I would add skis to that equation.

I am polar explorer, dog musher, adventure racer and educator and have spent the past 12 years of my life adventuring in some of the most remote and wild places left on earth. Totaled, I have probably traveled enough wilderness miles to circle the globe over two times.

In 2006, I completed the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole, the One World Expedition. On this journey my expedition partner and I pulled and paddled specially modified canoes over 600 miles of shifting sea ice and open ocean. My other expeditions include a 700-mile dog sled journey through northern Ontario, a six week dog sled journey in the barren lands of the Canadian Arctic, several training trips to Hudson Bay and countless dog sled races. At one point in my life (back in the day) I rode my bike across the United States, was a back country ranger in Alaska, a white water canoe guide in Colorado and wilderness trip leader in Hawaii.

Currently, I am planning and preparing for the Save the Poles expedition. Slated for 2009, I will travel to the North Pole, South Pole and the summit of Everest all in one year. You see, the polar regions of the world are home to an amazing variety of life. Seemingly desolate and vacant, these areas support vital ecosystems and are integral to regulating and maintaining world climate. The 'Save the Poles' expedition will journey to these last frozen places in attempt to tell their amazing story while promoting clean energy solutions to the problem of Climate Change.