In 2022 Dupre went back to NW Greenland to document through film the Polar Inuit culture.

Traveling from village to village by dog team, Dupre re-connected with his past polar Inuit friends to find out how their culture has changed because of climate change and modernization over the last two decades.

The Polar Inuit are unsung heroes of countless Arctic expeditions. Their ingenuity and innovation through trial and error and creative ways of improvising have always amazed Lonnie on past expeditions. The Polar Inuit people make it seem easy to live in a place, that otherwise appears inhospitable to us. Traditions that have been passed on for thousands of years; by dressing in furs and by forming a symbiosis with their sled dogs, they managed to live off the land, completely in tune with their environment of ice and snow. These people are not run by a clock; they do things when the time seems right. People are seen as equal; no person should be perceived as better than another.

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Lonnie’s accomplishments:

• 1991 – Completed the first west-to-east, 3,000-mile winter crossing of Canada’s famed Northwest Passage by dog team.

• 2001 – Achieved the first and only circumnavigation of Greenland, a 6,500 mile, all nonmotorized journey by kayak and dog team.

• 2006 & 2009 – Pulled sleds on skis from Canada to the North Pole twice achieving over 23 million impressions worldwide on issues surrounding climate change.

• 2015 – Accomplished the first solo winter ascent of Alaska’s Mount Denali (20,340ft.) in the month of January.

All presentations are family-friendly and free to the public.

Donations are always appreciated. Take your time driving up the Gunflint Trail Scenic Byway!