Boulder, CO (June 26 – 27, 2021) – Fellow Explorers Club member, Will Steger, appeared on Saturday and Sunday during the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF). He is the subject of a new documentary, After Antarctica, containing never-before-seen footage of his historic 3,741 mile coast-to-coast crossing of Antarctica. As political tensions reached a critical tipping point in 1989, acclaimed polar explorer Will Steger led an international team of six scientists and explorers on the first coast-to-coast traverse of Antarctica. This treacherous seven-month journey spanned the continent through violent storms, unrelenting sub-freezing temperatures and over deadly hidden crevasses.
The ultimate mission of the expedition was to draw global attention to Antarctica’s changing climate and Steger could never have expected what we would soon discover: the most pressing issue of our time. Now, 30 years later, Steger heads out on the ice once again, this time to the polar opposite end of the Earth, and brings awareness to the imminent changes occurring in the polar regions of our planet. After Antarctica is about a legendary expedition unlike any other – not only were Steger and his team of renegade explorers the first to complete this historic feat – they were also the last.