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MUSH, MY BEAUTIES – WE’RE A LONG WAY FROM JAMAICA
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The Sunday Times
Phil Couvrette, CanWest News Service
Sept. 23, 2007

They say the Yukon Quest is the toughest dogsledding race in the world. It runs each February between Whitehorse in Canada ’s Yukon Territory and Fairbanks, Alaska, across 1,000 miles of frozen wasteland.

For 10 days mushers survive alone and unaided with their dogs in blizzards and temperatures as low as -40C – surely no environment for a Jamaican.

But that’s not how 44-year-old Devon Anderson sees it. Jamaica’s number one (and the only) musher plans to leave the sweltering, palm-fringed beaches of home to compete in the Quest. He admits the first time he saw snow was last year, but he is confident that he and his dogs will be ready for the Yukon Quest by 2009...."

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