Blair Braverman is an author, dogsledder, and adventurer. Her journalism and essays have appeared in Smithsonian, The Guardian, on This American Life, and elsewhere, and she is a regular correspondent for Outside magazine. She recently completed the Iditarod, a thousand-mile dogsled race across Alaska.
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