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Article content ANCHORAGE — A B.C. climber was in critical condition on Tuesday after he fell nearly 300 metres during an expedition on Alaska’s Denali mountain, the National Park Service said. Adam Rawski, 31, of Burnaby, was taken off the mountain by helicopter after he took a tumbling fall late Monday from Denali Pass at the 5500-metre level of Denali, the park service said in a statement. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Burnaby mountain climber critically injured in 300-metre fall on Alaska's Denali Back to video Climbers at the mount...

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec 18 (Reuters) - The famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska will not run to Nome in 2021, a drastic change called necessary to protect the mushers from the COVID-19 pandemic and reduce its spread in rural Alaska, race officials announced on Friday. Instead, the 2021 Iditarod race route will take racers and dogs to the halfway point - the abandoned gold-mining town of Iditarod for which the trail is named. Then they will double back to the starting point. "The board, after thoughtful deliberation has determined that the highest standards of safety...