John Huston

In the spring of 2005, John completed a 1400-mile ski and dogsled expedition on the Greenland Ice cap with a team of 4 Norwegians. The expedition was filmed as part of a documentary film project in which British and Norwegian expedition teams re-ran the 1911 race for the South Pole. The competing teams used 1911-period clothing, equipment and food like the original teams, led by Englishman Robert F. Scott and Norwegian Roald Amundsen . The documentary series has aired on the BBC in England, and is slated to show on the History Channel in North America and the BBC worldwide. The Norwegian team, led by accomplished polar explorer Rune Gjeldnes, selected John for the team from a large applicant pool of North Americans.

John is a wilderness and arctic expeditioner, experiential educator, writer, world traveler, cross-country ski racer and fledgling historian. A graduate of Northwestern University, Illinois, he worked as a wilderness expedition instructor at Outward Bound Wilderness, in Ely, Minnesota for six years. During that time he slept outside 200 nights a year, led expeditions in all seasons, trained sled dogs, developed educational curricula and read about polar exploration history as much as possible. In the past few years John has also completed two multi-week winter expeditions on Hudson Bay and taken every opportunity to travel in the arctic and sub-arctic regions.

During the spring and summer of 2006 John worked as expedition manager for the One World Expedition, the first expedition to reach the North Pole in the summer (www.oneworldexpedition.com). As expedition manager John worked from his home in Ely, MN, to coordinate logistics, media inquiries, the website, and provide the first line of communication for the expedition team on the ice. During the 2006/07 winter John is the expediton basecamp manager for the Global Warming 101 Expedition led by Will Steger. These responsibilities will take him to Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Visit John's website.

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