Yukon River

On a beautiful fall day, relatives launched four boats on the Yukon River to take her to her birthplace in the village of Rampart.

The route takes mushers over two mountain ranges, along the frozen Yukon River and the Bering Sea ice before ending in the Gold Rush town of Nome.

The 38 mushers will trace a course across two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River and along the ice-covered Bering Sea.

That reasoning, though, has broken down on the Yukon River, where an ecological disaster is still unfolding.

The Yukon, which takes place in July, will see him kayak down the Yukon River from Whitehorse in Canada through the Arctic Circle to Dalton Highway Bridge in Alaska in the US.