It is that time again when dog and man  form a team to cross the most unforgiving land in a race that started as a race for life. The Iditarod dog sled race crosses 1,150 miles of the Alaska bush from Anchorage to Nome in sub-zero tempitures.

The race follows the path taken in 1925 when a Diphtheria outbrake in Nome was poised to kill everyone in and around the city. The only hope was to get medication them, but with no roads, the sea access frozen, and time running short there was few option to get the needed drugs there and save the lives of hundreds. The only option that just may work was to cross the frozen land and water ways with a relay of dog sleds. In the long, cold, dark Alaskan winter the race for life started off, being handed from team to team as the death toll keep growing in Nome. At last the life saving serum made it to Name and saved those still left alive.