Word: dogsledding
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The grueling 1,100-mile course traversed two mountain ranges, the Yukon River and the frozen Norton Sound. Besting 61 starters and unusually bad weather conditions, as well as overcoming a gender barrier, was Libby Riddles, 28, the first woman ever to win Alaska's Anchorage-to-Nome Iditarod dogsled...
Populist touches were also added in planning the Monday-afternoon parade. Governors unable to serve as grand marshals were urged to designate "citizen representatives" in their places, and more than a dozen did so. Some of the designees were already celebrities, including Astronaut Sally Ride (California), Marathoner Alberto Salazar (Oregon...
To stay within a budget limit of $9 million to $10 million, the committee is scheduling one-third fewer events this year. Gone are 1981's candlelight dinners and highbrow concerts at the Kennedy Center, and satellite balls across the country. Even the parade following the public swearing-in, with...
He rafted 3,700 miles down the Amazon River, walked the 1,750-mile length of Japan, and traveled 7,500 miles by dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes...
Uemura's original plans for this winter had been to attempt a solo 1,200-mile dogsled run across the South Pole from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea. But his early planning, which needed the cooperation of the Argentine government, was disrupted by the Falkland Islands war...