First Summer Expedition to the North Pole
Pulling for the Planet - 2006

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Summer vacation of mammoth proportions

LAURA BILLINGS July 5, 2006

Two guys from Grand Marais came face to face with a polar bear last week while they were sleeping in a tent on their summer vacation.

Though members of this species have been making news for going remarkably off-course in their search for food, Minnesotans may be relieved to know the polar bear was not seen on the Gunflint Trail. Instead, it was just a mile from the North Pole.

It came to sniff out the campsite of Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen, who just became the first Arctic explorers to reach the North Pole during summer.

"Yesterday, we were searching for meaning and not finding it," they wrote about the polar bear encounter in their expedition Web log at www.oneworld expedition.com. "This morning it walked within 60 inches of us."

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This excerpt is from the Pioneer Press, Minnesota.

More OWE Coverage

Can't get enough of the One World Expedition? No problem! Check out the Chicago Tribune - Lew Freedman, Duluth Tribune - Sam Cook, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Don Behm, as well as many others.

Duluth News Tribune, MN, July 5, 2006 "Rest of North Pole trip on thin ice"

Pioneer Press, MN, July 5, 2006 "Summer vacation of mammoth proportions"

KRQE, NM, July 4, 2006 AP. "Trekkers paddle to North Pole"

Zee News, India, July 4, 2006 "Activists become first to reach North Pole in summer"

Winona Daily News, MN, July 3, 2006 "Cedarburg native, another man report reaching North Pole"

LaCrosse Tribune, WI, July 3, 2006 "Dupre and Larson reach North Pole"

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI, July 3, 2006 "Pair to celebrate with flares over North Pole"

Duluth News Tribune, MN, June 22, 2006 "Pair nearing Pole"

Long Island Business News, NY, June 14, 2006, "Windward, ho!"

Cape Cod Today, MA, June 8, 2006, "Arctic Explorer coming to CCCC"

Duluth News Tribune, MN - Jun 7, 2006,
"Pair half way to Pole"

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI, June 6, 2006,
"Sweet supply drop lifts explorers' spirits on Arctic Ocean"

Nunatsiaq News, Canada, May 26, 2006
"Pole trekkers measure snow and ice"

Greater Milwaukee Today, May 23, 2006
"Arctic explorers push on through often brutal weather"

Duluth News Tribune, May 13, "Adversity in the Arctic"

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 10, "Explorers begin Arctic expedition"

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 5, "Explorers near start of Arctic journey"

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 17, "Pulling for the Pole"

Mother Jones web site story April 17

"A Piedifin Al Polo Sul Ghiaccio Bollente" If you can read Italian, then check out Italy's Newton Magazine no. 11 issue November 2004 sported an 11-page spread.

National Geographic Adventure posted a small sidebar on Lonnie and Eric in their December 2004/January 2005 issue.

Here is an article that featured Lonnie's thoughts on the recent Arctic Climate Impact Assessment in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The Duluth News Tribune interviewed Lonnie and Eric about their thoughts on global warming in this November article.

"In Quest of the Vanishing Ice" published online by ScienceAltert.com.au.

A similiar article was posted on Australian Canoeing Online.

European Magazine online featured the Rolex Laureates in an overview by Iain Dempsey.

More about the Rolex Laureates from thestar online. The article by Allan Koay is called "Watchmen of the World."

X-web's "The Poles" was excited to hear about the expedition's fundraising efforts.

One World Expedition's partnership with ACR Electronics. The team will be using ACR's TerraFix 406 GPS Personal Locator Beacon.

On November 13 and 14, the expedition was featured on Ron Schara's Minnesota bound as well as Belinda Jensen's Morning Program on Kare 11, the NBC affiliate in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Paddler magazine feature a short description of the expedition in their November/December 2004 issue.

Pati Holmen helped arrange for this story to be run when the team visited Lapham Peak State Park outside of Milwaukee. It appeared in the Waukesha Freeman on November 11 2004.

A tid bit from South Wales Canoeing Online.

International Herald Tribune. You can read the article online at The IHT Online September 30, 2004 Across Arctic by Paddle and Ski

Some of our bigest news to date. Read about Lonnie's prestigous Rolex Award for Enterprise as he was named one of five Laureates for 2004.

Paddling Gadling? Well, just scroll down and you'll see us. FYI, we didn't name the web site.

Eric was interviewed by Chuck Quirmback on Monday November 8. Canoeing Across the Arctic Raises Global Climate Issue is a synopsis of their converstation.

Straight from PR Newswire, High Beam Research picked up one of our press releases.

Don Behm with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal filed this wonderful write up after the team's fundraising visit to the Milwaukee area.

A young local writer spent a weekend with the One World Expedition team and was able to put together a great piece on the expedition and other Minnesota explorers in Duluth's Ripsaw News.

Here is a nod to the expedition from a small paper in western Wisconsin, the Holmen Courier.

ExplorersWeb Inc hosts a Web site that is generally considered one of the definitive sources on polar expeditions. Recently, Chance and the rest of the team wrote an excellent synopsis of the One World Expedition. Now, everyone's talking “Summer Crossing?” It's big news.  Check out the ‘Poles' web site for the full story.

I don't know how some of these articles get out there, but they do.  Looks like Kayak trips .net picked up on our adventure as well.

Lonnie spent a morning in the newsroom of WCCO TV in Minneapolis in early June.  Anchor Bill Hudson used the news desk format to interview Lonnie and learn more about the One World Expedition.

KSTP Channel 5, a Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN ABC affiliate aired Jason Davis "On the Road" March 6th, 2004 featuring Lonnie and Eric.

"Icy Rehearsal for Arctic Expedition Team from Minnesota" by Sam Cook. (This article was originally printed in the Duluth News Tribune in December but was circulated around the country by Knight Ridder Newspapers.)

"Camping in winter, when even the ice can moan" by Lew Freedman Chicago Tribune. This Article can be viewed at the Chicago Tribune Archives. You'll need to register first.

"Explorers Plan First Summer Crossing of Arctic Ocean" Expedition News

"Last Arctic Mystery." Creative Touch films in London recently released a documentary about Lonnie's Greenland Expedition for National Geographic. Titled the "Last Arctic Mystery," it details his 6,500-mile journey around the world's largest island. The documentary is currently airing in Europe and Oceania. Find out more by visiting National Geographic Online and click on the Episode Guide (right column) to #20 and read more about this exciting documentary.

Twin Cities.com in association the the St. Paul Pioneer Press reproduced an article that recently appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel picked up one of our press releases.

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