While Balto finished the run, it was Togo the dog who led his sled team through the longest stretch of the journey — more than 260 miles in just three days. Balto has always been regarded as a ...

There are about 100 Seppala Siberan sled dogs, many of them in Maine. Each can trace its ancestry directly, on both sides, to Togo. “They’re not interbred so they are a breed of their own ...

Nome, Alaska, remembers its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver life-saving serum.

The sled dogs of Nome were Siberian huskies ... it was surely Seppala's lead dog Togo. Whilst Kaasen and his team made a 53-mile dash into Nome, Seppala clocked up 265 miles, having to cross ...