“My days of the major expeditions of leading teams... that part of my life is not over because that experience lives with me forever. And especially what I've learned on those expeditions, I apply at the Steger Center.”

“… the goal was greater than ourselves... I think the real goal of saving Antarctica, of protecting Antarctica, kept us alive during the worst times during the storms.”

“This whole experience of crossing Antarctica, and it was during the crossing that I drew up the designs for the Steger Center itself... My case study on that... was Trans-Antarctica.”

“But, yeah, everything's fine here. It was a technical problem.”

“I had this sense of adventure, which all kids have, and just incredible curiosity.”

“And so the process right now is... that current will gradually erode underneath these... big sections... and then eventually those blocks of ice will pop out. And that's when you have these ice dams and kind of a wild situation.”

“Big change in the river. The river has risen about three feet—or the ice has... it's pooling up... the water is starting to rise up. It's a much different breakup... these breakups can be really quite incredibly dramatic and impressive and violent.”

“Cumulus is formed by heat rising. It rises and it builds up those pretty clouds... by convection like boiling water. Well, when the colder weather comes, it stratifies it, and it stops that convection... and put a damper on the mood.”