Climate change, COVID loom over Alaska's 50th annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies trotted through Alaska's largest city on Saturday to start the
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By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies trotted through Alaska's largest city on Saturday to start the
Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies trotted through Alaska's largest city on Saturday to start the 50th annual running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event transformed by climate change and commercialism since its humble beginnings.
3/3 © Reuters. The Joe Redington Sr. Memorial Trail, named for the homesteader who was the "Father of the Iditarod," is a ribbon of ice, with some spo
Contestants forged through unusually warm and sloppy conditions on the first day of the run, with temperatures hovering between freeze and thaw
Four Indigenous mushers are in the mix but weather, medical issues are already causing problems. And then there’s Dallas Seavey.