Martin Buser

Born in wintherthur, Switzerland in 1958. Martin became fascinated with sled dogs while still a teen. He came to Alaska in 1979 to enhance his knowledge of care and training of sled dogs. He began working and training with long-time Alaskan mushers Earl and Natalie Norris and ran his first Iditarod in 1980. Martin, wife Kathy Chapoton and sons Nikolai and Rohn (both names after Iditarod checkpoints, reside in Big Lake, Alaska where the family owns and manages Happy Trails Kennel.

Susan Butcher and the news of the dog race

Susan Butcher never backed away from a challenge that is why she won the iditarod four times. She was born in Boston and her love of wilderness and animals drew her out to Alaska. She was 5 feet and six inches tall and weighed 135 pounds at the peak of her racing career. She was the first person to win 3 times in a row the iditarod championship. She set another record by wining 4 championships in 5 years. She died in 2006 of leukemia at the age of 51. The iditarod has 100 mph winds and 70 degres below zero.

Dog Race in Alaska in 2009

1. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race first ran to Nome in 1973, after two short races on part of the Iditarod Trail in 1967 and 1969. The idea of having a race over the Iditarod Trail was conceived by the late Dorothy G. Page. In 1964, Page was chairman of the Wasilla-Knik Centennial and was working on projects to celebrate Alaska’s Centennial Year in 1967.

2. The 2009 Iditarod Musher Listing is
Entrants
73
Withdrawn
6
Alaska Entrants 43
Other U.S.A 7
Other Countries 6
Total Active Mushers 56
Withdrawn 4
Total Sign-Up 60

3. The Route Goes from Anchorage to Nome
The Race Starts at Sat, Mar 7, 10:00 a.m.

4.In 1973 Dick Wilmarth was the first winner but the fastest winner was in 2002 named Martin Buser.

5. You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod.

Mount. Everest

Everest was formed about 60 million years ago. It grows the quarter of a inch every year. It has a elevation of 29,035 find to be 6' in 1999. It's summits ridge seperates Tibet and Nepal. It was named after Sir George Everest in 1865 ,the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15. It is visible from India, Nepal, and Tibet. British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappear near the summit, along the Northeast Ridge. It is possible that they may have actually been the first to reach the summit, but they never returned.

December 17, 1903 The first man flying

Thursday, December 17 dawned, and was to go down in history as a day when a great engineering feat was accomplished. It was a cold day with winds of 22 to 27 miles an hour blowing from the north. Puddles of water near the camp were covered with ice. The Wrights waited indoors, hoping the winds would diminish. But they continued brisk, and at 10 in the morning the brothers decided to attempt a flight, fully realizing the difficulties and dangers of flying a relatively untried machine in so high a wind. They were successful and actually flew.

The Chunnel

The Chunnel starts at England and France. It has 2 single tracks. It was built in 1994. The idea of the chunnel started at 1802. Proposals for a fixed link across the English Channel go back to Albert Mathieu's 1802 plan involving horse-drawn carts and an artificial mid-Channel island. For over 150 years, British political and press pressure over compromised national security stalled attempts to construct a tunnel. In 1974, French and UK government-funded construction commenced on both sides of the Channel, but the project was cancelled by the UK government over financial concerns. In 1985, the UK and French governments invited submissions for a fixed link. Eurotunnel, a group of ten construction companies and five banks, was awarded the project, a triple-bore railway tunnel based on the 1974 attempt. Tunnelling commenced in 1988, and the tunnel began operating in 1994. In 1985 prices, the total construction cost wasf4million (£10,153 million inflation-adjusted to 2007)4, an 80% cost overrun. At the peak of construction 15,000 people were employed with daily expenditure over £3 million5] Ten workers died during construction between 1987 and 1993, the majority being killed in the first few months of boring. Of the 10 deaths, 8 were British workers.

Space Station events on november-december 1,2008

The new compotents for the international station

The Russians are adding a new toilet system that was built by them.The new galley will be equipped with two suitcase-sized food warmers. It has equipment that can help do new exercises. They have the water recovery system that recycles the urine.

The space shutttle endeavor landed in California because of bad weather in Florida. It was scheduled to land in Florida. The international spacestation capacity for the crew has expanded to 6 crew members now and a rotating joint for the solar wing.

I think it was a great improvement but I believe that it will be having even greater improvements.