A closer look
Sled dogs managed to deliver life-saving diphtheria antitoxin to the isolated town of Nome, Alaska, in the dead of winter in nineteen twenty-five because trains couldn't make it and open-cockpit airplanes would have frozen solid. A relay of twenty mushers and over one hundred and fifty incredibly good boys sprinted through blizzards and minus fifty degree temperatures, covering six hundred and seventy-four miles of brutal wilderness in a staggering five and a half days. Balto usually gets all the historical credit and a bronze statue in Central Park for running the final stretch, but a dog named Togo actually led his team through the longest and most dangerous part of the journey. While modern delivery drivers will casually mark your package as undeliverable because there was a mild drizzle, these heroic canines essentially ran an ultra-marathon through a frozen hellscape to save a town
