Race to the Top of the World: Richard Byrd and the First Flight to the North Pole

Sheldon Bart is president and founder of Wilderness Research Foundation and a member of the Board of Governors of the American Polar Society. An authority on polar pioneer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Bart has lectured widely, including at the Explorers Club, the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University. He organized and led the 1996 American Expedition to Baffin Island in the eastern Arctic and was project manager of the 2010 Wilderness Research Antarctic Program.