Dogsled

Trans-Antarctica dog team on the Antarctic Peninsula. 1989

© Lonnie Dupre

Lonnie Dupre rests his dog team on the Greenland coast. 1998

© Lonnie Dupre

Driving as dog team during a Greenland circumnavigation. 1998

© Lonnie Dupre

On the Greenland plateau. 1998

Sarah McNair-Landry runs with her dog team in Iqaluit

Don Goldschmidt blazing the trail through virgin Antarctic terrain with Fido leading the way. 1960

Pausing under the Barne Glacier on a spring training run on sea ice, September 1961

Kevin Pain driving his team up to a 3,581m-high survey station, later named Husky Dome to commemorate the highest point reached by dogs in Antarctica, December 1961

A spring training run across young sea ice to visit Scott's Hut at Cape Evans

New Zealand dog team crossing a concealed crevasse in the Transantarctic Mountains

Beginning the first descent of the Axel Heiberg Glacier since Amundsen exactly half a century earlier: Vic McGregor as acting lead dog and Wally Herbert pushing the sledge through deep snow under Mt Don Pedro Christopherson (3,775m), 1962

Training run on sea ice to see the first sunrise in 4 months, McMurdo Sound, August 1961. The dogs sometimes disappeared under their own frozen breath at -50º C

The summit survey station on Mt Fridtjof Nansen (4,070m), established on the first ascent of the highest Antarctic mountain climbed at that time, January 1962. Peter Otway at theodolite, Wally Herbert booking

© Philipp Bergau

Dog team rests before descending a valley in Svalbard

© Philipp Bergau

Dogs resting after a day on the trail. Svalbard

© Philipp Bergau

Dogsled camp. Svalbard

© Philipp Bergau

Dogsledder Philipp Bergau with his team. Svalbard

© Eric Philips

Dogsled team heads to the North Pole

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