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Ultimate Survival Alaska was an American television reality competition series produced by Brian Catalina Productions that premiered on the National Geographic Channel on May 12, 2013. [1] The series was executive produced by Brian Catalina, Kristina Wood, John Magennis, Claire Kosloff, Victoria Levy, and Peter Goest.
Cason Crane (born December 2, 1992) [1] is an American entrepreneur and endurance athlete. [2] In 2013, he became the first openly gay mountaineer to scale the Seven Summits. [3]
In 2018, the race introduced the Seventy48 race, a pre-race from Tacoma to Port Townsend. [8] [9] It is a 70-statute-mile human-powered only race in which the winner of the race receives as a prize all of the entry fees paid by participants. With the 2020 race scrapped by officials caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 6th was deferred to 2021 ...
Map of the historical and current Iditarod trails; the route taken during the 1925 serum run is shown in green.. The 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy and The Serum Run, was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled relay across the US territory of Alaska by 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs across 674 miles (1,085 km) in 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 days, saving the small ...
Outlast is an American survival reality competition television series that takes place in Alaska. All eight episodes of the first season premiered on March 10, 2023, on Netflix . [ 1 ] It is produced by Aggregate Films and Nomad Entertainment, with Mike Odair serving as the showrunner, and Jason Bateman , Grant Kahler, Michael Costigan, Emma Ho ...
Gallien said he had deep doubts about "Alex's" ability to survive the harsh and unforgiving Alaskan bush. A replica of Bus 142, used in the film Into the Wild. Gallien tried repeatedly to persuade McCandless to delay the trip, at one point offering to detour to Anchorage and buy him suitable equipment and supplies.
Togo (1913 – December 5, 1929) was the lead sled dog of musher Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska.Despite covering a far greater distance than any other lead dogs on the run, over some of the most dangerous parts of the trail, his role was left out of contemporary news of the event at the time, in favor of the lead dog for ...
Gunnar Kaasen (March 11, 1882 – November 27, 1960) was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U.S. city from an epidemic. [1] [2]