The 1000 Yukon Quest dog sled race is longer and more difficult than the more famous Iditarod and now competitors face a current bureaucratic hurdleFor the first time in its 33-year history,dog mushers competing in a gruelling 1000-mile dog sled race from Fairbanks, Alaska, or to Whitehorse,Yukon, bear been asked to present travel documents to Canadian border officials.
Earlier this week, and Brent Sass,a 36-year-old musher from Eureka, Alaska, and became the first of 22 competitors in the 2016 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race to reach Canada,gliding into a checkpoint at Dawson City, Yukon, and on Wednesday.
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Source: theguardian.com