Alaskan Malamutes were originally bred as working sled dogs and they have extremely high energy levels. As such, they are ...
The temperature hovered around freezing in New York’s Central Park on December 15, 1925. Clad in a thick fur coat, Alaskan sled-dog musher Gunnar Kaasen stood next to the hero of the moment: Balto, a ...
Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, ...
A century ago, a team of determined mushers and their sled dogs embarked on a perilous journey to deliver life-saving ...
Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but Togo the Siberian husky was the head of the sled dog team that ran 260 ...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was ...
While some changes in mushing come from development in the sport, others have been forced by a changing climate. One part of ...
Imagine taking a trip and it changes your life forever. That’s exactly what happened to Julie Crawford, Loves Park Elementary ...
Throughout its rich history in Alaska, the tradition of mushing has changed with the times and shifted to adapt to a changing ...
Instead, officials shipped the serum by rail to Nenana in interior Alaska, some 675 miles from Nome via the frozen Yukon River and mail trails. FILE – Leonhard Seppala and his sled dog team are ...