Word: dogsledding
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The ship was the Endurance, a small, tight, Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientist, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. From that point Shackleton proposed to force a passage...
Then there's the one about Denver architect William Elkjer, 57, who always wanted to launch himself on an adventure he would remember forever. In April, he and his wife Candy took an eight-day, professionally led dogsled trip across 180 miles of Alaska. Elkjer cashed in all of his...
$51,000: Amount, along with a new truck, earned by Jeff King for driving a dogsled nine days in a blizzard to win the Iditarod
"Here we are! Hooray!" Those were modest words for a momentous achievement. They came in a radio message from a six-man team of adventurers and scientists that reached the South Pole last week after a 3,213-km (1,992-mile) trek across Antarctica by dogsled. The expedition was...
The seven-month, $11 million Trans-Antarctica Expedition was conceived by wilderness lovers Will Steger, 45, a Minnesotan who earlier led a historic dogsled trek to the North Pole, and Jean-Louis Etienne, 43, a French physician. Their purpose was to draw attention to the increasingly endangered continent and to...