For a fourth time, Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod dog-sled race, crossing the finish line overnight Tuesday after a roughly 1,000-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness in a record 8 days 11 hours 20 minutes 16 seconds.
Seavey, 29, was greeted by a jubilant crowd in the town of Nome, where well-wishers endured zero-degree temperatures to cheer his arrival.
At the finish line, Seavey praised his lead dogs, Reef and Tide, who were adorned with yellow garlands, and said he had rallied from feeling “the most tired I’ve ever been on the Iditarod.”
“This was a heck of a trip all the way from the start,” he said in a video interview published by The Alaska Dispatch News.