Forty-nine mushers and their teams of huskies were due to depart Alaska's largest city on Saturday for the 50th annual running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, an event drastically altered by climate change and commercialism since its humble beginnings.
The starting gate has been returned to downtown Anchorage, a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted organizers to launch the 2021 race from a secluded riverside spot north of the city and off limits to the usual crowds of spectators.
Mushers, volunteers and fans who gathered for this year's renewal of Iditarod festivities in Anchorage were instructed to mask up and take other precautions to prevent the spread of the still-lingering virus. The field also includes Pete Kaiser, who in 2019 became the first Native Yup'ik musher to win the race, 2018 champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom of Norway, and four-time winner Martin Buser. Seventeen women are competing in this year's Iditarod, one of the world's few high-profile sports events in which women and men compete on an equal footing.
Climate change has wrought some of the greatest changes in the world's most famous sled-dog race, as it has for much of life in the far north.
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