--- title: Eric Larsen: The Man on a Mission to Preserve the Coldest Places description: Eric Larsen spends his life in pursuit of the cold canonical: https://time.com/3819866/eric-larsen-north-pole-mt-everest/ author: Julia Lull article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-13T19:24:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T11:33:14.000Z article:section: Science og:title: This Guy Goes to the Coldest Places on Earth So You Don't Have To og:description: The North Pole, the South Pole, and the top of Mt. Everest—all in one year og:url: https://time.com/3819866/eric-larsen-north-pole-mt-everest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80c92e0eba82cffc/698867710a4a222b619c6778/arcticeric1.jpeg?branch=production og:image:width: 3458 og:image:height: 2152 og:image:alt: arcticeric1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Guy Goes to the Coldest Places on Earth So You Don't Have To twitter:description: The North Pole, the South Pole, and the top of Mt. Everest—all in one year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80c92e0eba82cffc/698867710a4a222b619c6778/arcticeric1.jpeg?branch=production ---  # This Guy Goes to the Coldest Places on Earth So You Don't Have To  by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:33 AM UTCPublished: Apr 13, 2015 7:24 PM UTC   by [Julia Lull](https://time.com/author/julia-lull/)  ## Julia Lull Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:33 AM UTCPublished: Apr 13, 2015 7:24 PM UTC Polar adventurer [Eric Larsen](http://www.ericlarsenexplore.com/) spends his life in pursuit of the world’s coldest places. In 2006, he completed the first-ever summer expedition to the North Pole, and in 2010 he completed a world record expedition to the North Pole, the South Pole, and the top of Mt. Everest—all in one year. In 2014, he completed what he believes will be the last unsupported expedition to the geographic North Pole… ever. Larsen documents each of his adventures, and sees his expeditions as a way to educate the rest of the world about the changing climates of the places he travels to. He hopes to spread the word and raise awareness about these coldest of places, before they are gone for good. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3819866/eric-larsen-north-pole-mt-everest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3819866/eric-larsen-north-pole-mt-everest/"},"headline":"This Guy Goes to the Coldest Places on Earth So You Don't Have To","datePublished":"2015-04-13T19:24:36.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T11:33:14.000Z","description":"The North Pole, the South Pole, and the top of Mt. Everest—all in one year","url":"https://time.com/3819866/eric-larsen-north-pole-mt-everest/","keywords":["ultras","Environment","climate change"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80c92e0eba82cffc/698867710a4a222b619c6778/arcticeric1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julia Lull","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/julia-lull/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80c92e0eba82cffc/698867710a4a222b619c6778/arcticeric1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"arcticeric1","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ultras/","name":"ultras"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3819866/eric-larsen-north-pole-mt-everest/","name":"This Guy Goes to the Coldest Places on Earth So You Don't Have To"}}]}] ```