Take the dogs out of the race and make the mushers really rely on themselves and only themselves out there. Let’s see how they would do, sprinting 12 to 16 hours a day into a Siberian wind, on a diet of raw venison and snow melt.

Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race is longer than ever before due to a lack of snow. This year's race, which has 33 mushers taking part, will last a record distance of 1,128 miles across Alaska.

Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska wilderness. The course change adds more than 100 mile.