Having (nearly) conquered the world of competitive bobsleigh, Jamaicans are now putting together a dogsled team
Kate Lunau | Jul 30, 2007 | 12:43 pm EST
The first time Devon Anderson visited the Yukon, he thought it was “heaven.”
“It’s beautiful,” he says in a Jamaican accent. “When you look at the snow, everything is white, and all these pine trees with the snow hanging down - it was like living in a dream, it was like reading a storybook. I’ve been to quite a few places, but that place is exceptional.”
Anderson, 44, will be spending a lot more time in the Yukon in the coming months. And, remarkably, he'll do so as the lead musher on Jamaica’s first-ever dogsled team, set on completing the Yukon Quest - a gruelling 1,600 km race between Whitehorse and Fairbanks, Alaska, that's billed as the toughest dogsled race in the world.
Not to be confused with the Jamaican bobsleigh team (inspiration for a mildly funny John Candy film), Jamaica’s dogsled team was dreamed up by entrepreneur Danny Melville while he was in Edmonton two years ago, searching for dune buggies for his Jamaica-based tourism company, Chukka Caribbean Adventures.
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