Huskies in Antarctica

You can find and subscribe to the other5billion podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, RadioPublic, Stitcher, Overcast and wherever you get your quality listens. In this special bonus episode, you'll hear the full interview that I had with John Killingbeck. John went to Antarctica on two expeditions, once in the 1960s and then in the 1990s. During the latter expedition, he was actually one of the very last two people to ever drive a husky team on the continent. After that, they were removed from Antarctica for good. In 45 action-packed minutes we cover so much: John's first drive when his team broke out into a fight immediately, but was the first of many - John went on to drive thousands of miles by sledge, Stories about how the huskies survive all sorts of adventures and crises, dealing with breaking sea ice, crevasses and storms, Memories of the huskies' journeys by plane and their last journey to Canada after their removal from Antarctica. If you haven't yet listened to our episode about the history of huskies, where we go back 15,000 to the birth of sled dogs, then make sure you find time to listen here.   Background resources  Recommended books about Antarctic exploration Geoff Somers: Antarctica: The Impossible Crossing http://geoffsomers.com/ Michael Smith: Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shackleton-Endurance-Conquer-Michael-Smith-ebook/dp/B00O0G17L6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536093437&sr=1-1&keywords=shackleton Keith Walton and Rick Atkinson: Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic – Illustrated Story of the Dogs of the British Antarctic Survey https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-Men-Antarctic-Illustrated-British/dp/189781755X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536093374&sr=8-1&keywords=of+dogs+and+men Robert Falcon Scott: Journals Captain Scott’s Last Expedition https://www.amazon.co.uk/Journals-Captain-Scotts-Expedition-Classics/dp/0199536805/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536095866&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+falcon+scott Julie Karner: Roald Amundsen: The Quest for the South Pole https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roald-Amundsen-Footsteps-Explorers-Quest/dp/0778724689/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536095921&sr=1-3&keywords=amundsen+antarctica   List of resources about huskies and explorations in Antarctica Academic articles Germonpré, Mietje & Jimenez, Elodie-Laure & Sablin, Mikhail. (2016). Palaeolithic and prehistoric dogs and Pleistocene wolves from Yakutia: Identification of isolated skulls. Journal of Archaeological Science. 78. 1-19. 10.1016/j.jas.2016.11.008. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310879103_Palaeolithic_and_prehistoric_dogs_and_Pleistocene_wolves_from_Yakutia_Identification_of_isolated_skulls Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00432-7  Freedman, A. H., Gronau, I., Schweizer, R. M., Ortega-Del Vecchyo, D., Han, E., Silva, P. M., … Novembre, J. (2014). Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs. PLoS Genetics, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004016 Freedman, A. H., & Wayne, R. K. (2017). Deciphering the Origin of Dogs: From Fossils to Genomes. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 5(1), 281–307. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110937   Reference articles http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/earliest-evidence-dog-breeding-found-remote-siberian-island http://www.shwauk.org.uk/siberian_husky_history.htm http://users.tpg.com.au/users/cnicholl/history.htm http://www.shca.org/shcahp2d.htm http://iditarod.com/about/history/ https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/antarctica/environmental-protection/wildlife-and-plants-2/removal-of-the-sledge-dogs/ http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/transportation/ground-transportation/huskies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAV9CcDvGcc https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/want-one-these-guys-nz-husky-adoption-centre-warns-abandoned-dogs-high-maintenance