Three Mushers, One Impenetrable Blizzard, And The World's Hardest Dog Sled Race

Everything was going to be decided within the next five minutes. Three mushers and their dog teams were on top of Eagle Summit, a 3,685-foot tall gap that runs through the White Mountains in central Alaska. They were stuck in a blizzard, huddled together with their dogs as winds up to 40 miles an hour mercilessly dumped snow on them, making it impossible to see anything more than a few feet away.

"...The Quest’s defining feature is that it is much more remote and much less commercialized than the Iditarod—there are only 10 checkpoints at the Yukon Quest, compared to 25 at the Iditarod—which is another way of saying that it’s far more treacherous...

Everything was going to be decided within the next five minutes. Three mushers and their dog teams were on top of Eagle Summit, a 3,685-foot tall gap that runs through the White Mountains in central Alaska. They were stuck in a blizzard, huddled together with their dogs as winds up to 40 miles an hour mercilessly dumped snow on them, making it impossible to see anything more than a few feet away.

"...The Quest’s defining feature is that it is much more remote and much less commercialized than the Iditarod—there are only 10 checkpoints at the Yukon Quest, compared to 25 at the Iditarod—which is another way of saying that it’s far more treacherous...