The Yukon Quest, formally the Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race, is a sled dog race scheduled every February since 1984 between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon, switching directions each year. Because of the harsh winter conditions, difficult trail, and the limited support that competitors are allowed, it is considered the "most difficult sled dog race in the world", or even the "toughest race in the world"—"even tougher, more selective and less attention-seeking than the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race." The originator envisioned it as "a race so rugged that only purists would participate."
Didier Moggia was the first musher to start the 2008 Yukon Quest in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Dogs race ahead at the start of the 2003 Yukon Quest in Whitehorse.
The former White Pass and Yukon Route train station in Whitehorse houses the Canadian offices of Yukon Quest International and is next to the Whitehorse end of the race.
Braeburn Lodge is the first checkpoint in the Whitehorse–Fairbanks direction.
A sled dog is a dog trained and used to pull a land vehicle in harness, most commonly a sled over snow.
Carrying the mail and the weekly Klondike Nugget, this service covered all the creeks adjacent to Dawson City. The service was established by Jean (or Gene) Allen in 1898
Sled dog wearing harness during the Jesup Expedition in Siberia
A sled dog team of 11 in Denali National Park and Preserve
Huskies ready to ride at the husky farm in Kuusamo, Finland
