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John Huston (born August 14, 1976) is an American polar explorer, motivational speaker, wilderness guide, and safety and logistics consultant. In 2009, Huston completed the first successful unsupported American expedition to the North Pole. He has also completed expeditions to the South Pole, Greenland, and Ellesmere Island. Huston is the co-author of (Forward: The First American Unsupported Expedition to the North Pole ). == Biography == Huston started his career in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bergans.eu/tema/expedition/team/13/john-huston )〕 From 2000 to 2005, Huston worked full-time at Outward Bound, an expedition school that leads active learning trips. In the spring of 2005, Huston was the only North American selected to join a team of Norwegians restaging Roald Amundsen’s 1911 expedition to the South Pole for a History Channel and BBC documentary. The expedition team skied and dog sledded 1400 miles over 72 days on the Greenland icecap, using 1911 period clothing, equipment and food. During December 2007 and January 2008, Huston led a full-length ski expedition to the South Pole, covering 720 miles in 57 days. In April 2009, Huston and his expedition partner, Tyler Fish, traveled unsupported from land to the North Pole. In doing so, they became the first North Americans to complete this trip.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.adventurestats.com/statistics.shtml#polar )〕 Th 55-day, 475-mile journey had been accomplished by 13 prior expeditions and is considered the toughest expedition on the planet by many in the polar exploration industry. Huston highlights themes of this expedition in his motivational lectures. In March 2013, Huston (USA), Tobias Thorleifsson (Norway), Hugh Dale-Harris (Canada), and Kyle O’Donoghue (South Africa), an expedition filmmaker, completed a 630-mile expedition on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic. The team filmed their expedition for the documentary New Land 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.isuma.tv/members/new-land-2013-expedition )〕 Recently, Huston has worked as a guide in polar base camps, where he has assisted film crews and scientists operating in temperatures down to -57 °F (-50 °C). Huston currently consults with other polar expeditions to run logistics, safety and communications for teams on the ice. He also advises and serves as a safety auditor for educational outdoor programs like (Project Wildcat ), a backpacking program that Huston co-founded in 1996 for incoming students at Northwestern University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2009/feature/johnhuston.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Huston (polar explorer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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