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Will Steger, a Minnesota man of 75, is the ultimate outdoors explorer-adventurer. He appears to be a typical rugged American. As he tells it, as a seven-year-old, writing a school essay about what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said he wanted to have his belongings in a bag on a stick and to be riding the trains as a hobo. That did not go over too well in school or with his father, but he maintained his urge to embark on adventures all his life, through three marriages and from his first foray at 19 to mountain climbing. When he witnessed two very experienced climbers fall to their death, he changed drastically and went through such a life crisis that he was hospitalized and later retreated to a Zen monastery on the West Coast. After that, he returned home, started exploring to the North of Minnesota and finally reached the North Pole (The Arctic). He became legendary as a polar explorer. He saw it as a Zen exercise in discipline and inner learning. ‘After Antarctica’ directed by Tasha Van Zandt is more than a tribute to Steger; it is a dramatic warning about global warming today.…

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