Three Mushers, One Impenetrable Blizzard, And The World's Hardest Dog Sled Race
by Elisa Shoenberger from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4E6BQ)
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"