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Sled Dogs
In the past, arctic survival depended on the sled dog but as Mark Seth Lender found out, the Iditarod race is probably closer to the current reality.
For a thousand years, the Inuit depended on dogs to carry food and furs and transport them for trade. Now the dogs are bred for racing, and as writer Mark Seth Lender discovered, the dog is still an Arctic icon.