Sled dogs, like human athletes, eventually slow down. And, again like their human counterparts, when the inevitable moment arrives, they usually aren’t ready to quit. Think of those aging marathon ...
Crossing the snowy wastes of Alaska in deep winter, when the temperature is plunging past 40 below zero, might not be everybody’s cup of tea. But for Marla BB, it was a little bit of paradise — a ...
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 ...