Luc Hardy

A Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York and of The Royal Geographic Society, and a member of the Société des Explorateurs Français, Luc Hardy founded and supports his own environmental organization, Pax Arctica, an initiative created to promote awareness of the threats facing polar and glacier regions, and the oceans.

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  • Hardy has led expeditions for members of the scientific community as well as youth ambassadors to regions including the North Pole, Greenland, Antarctica, the Himalayas, Curacao, Cuba, Africa and the Pacific, among others to witness the dramatic changes occurring in these regions.

    Hardy is the author of several books: Antarctic Adventure, Greenland Impressions, Arctic Transitions, and The Pursuit of Endurance – On the Shoulders of Shackleton.

    Hardy had made a number of films including Pax Sargassum, Pakistan Melting, Alter Ego and Black Diamond (forthcoming – 2023), EAMI (2022), Among the Corals (2022), At the Edge of Light (2020), Arktika Incognita (2018), and The Pursuit of Endurance – On the Shoulders of Shackleton (2015)

    Learn more about Hardy’s activism and work at paxarctica.org.

Tim Sohn

Tim Sohn is a freelance journalist based in New York and a longtime Correspondent for Outside Magazine. His writing has focused on the natural world, conservation, and adventure.

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  • Sohn has written for a wide array of additional publications, including Men’s Journal, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Wired, Smithsonian, and The New York Times. He has received a MacDowell fellowship and his work has been anthologized in several books. He is currently at work on his first book, a nonfiction account of the efforts of local tribes, fishermen, and other stakeholders in a remote part of Alaska to block a proposed mine and preserve their intact ecosystem and its remarkable abundance of salmon.