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In this special bonus episode, you'll hear the full interview that I had with John Killingbeck. John went to Antarctica on two expeditions, once in the 1960s and then in the 1990s. During the latter expedition, he was actually one of the very last two people to ever drive a husky team on the continent. After that, they were removed from Antarctica for good.
In 45 action-packed minutes we cover so much:
John's first drive when his team broke out into a fight immediately, but was the first of many - John went on to drive thousands of miles by sledge,
Stories about how the huskies survive all sorts of adventures and crises, dealing with breaking sea ice, crevasses and storms,
Memories of the huskies' journeys by plane and their last journey to Canada after their removal from Antarctica.
If you haven't yet listened to our episode about the history of huskies, where we go back 15,000 to the birth of sled dogs, then make sure you find time to listen here.
 
Background resources 
Recommended books about Antarctic exploration
Geoff Somers: Antarctica: The Impossible Crossing http://geoffsomers.com/
Michael Smith: Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shackleton-Endurance-Conquer-Michael-Smith-ebook/dp/B00O0G17L6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536093437&sr=1-1&keywords=shackleton
Keith Walton and Rick Atkinson: Of Dogs and Men: Fifty Years in the Antarctic – Illustrated Story of the Dogs of the British Antarctic Survey https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-Men-Antarctic-Illustrated-British/dp/189781755X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536093374&sr=8-1&keywords=of+dogs+and+men
Robert Falcon Scott: Journals Captain Scott’s Last Expedition https://www.amazon.co.uk/Journals-Captain-Scotts-Expedition-Classics/dp/0199536805/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536095866&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+falcon+scott
Julie Karner: Roald Amundsen: The Quest for the South Pole https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roald-Amundsen-Footsteps-Explorers-Quest/dp/0778724689/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536095921&sr=1-3&keywords=amundsen+antarctica
 
List of resources about huskies and explorations in Antarctica
Academic articles
Germonpré, Mietje & Jimenez, Elodie-Laure & Sablin, Mikhail. (2016). Palaeolithic and prehistoric dogs and Pleistocene wolves from Yakutia: Identification of isolated skulls. Journal of Archaeological Science. 78. 1-19. 10.1016/j.jas.2016.11.008. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310879103_Palaeolithic_and_prehistoric_dogs_and_Pleistocene_wolves_from_Yakutia_Identification_of_isolated_skulls
Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)00432-7 
Freedman, A. H., Gronau, I., Schweizer, R. M., Ortega-Del Vecchyo, D., Han, E., Silva, P. M., … Novembre, J. (2014). Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs. PLoS Genetics, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004016
Freedman, A. H., & Wayne, R. K. (2017). Deciphering the Origin of Dogs: From Fossils to Genomes. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 5(1), 281–307. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-022114-110937
 
Reference articles
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/earliest-evidence-dog-breeding-found-remote-siberian-island
http://www.shwauk.org.uk/siberian_husky_history.htm
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/cnicholl/history.htm
http://www.shca.org/shcahp2d.htm
http://iditarod.com/about/history/
https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/antarctica/environmental-protection/wildlife-and-plants-2/removal-of-the-sledge-dogs/
http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/transportation/ground-transportation/huskies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAV9CcDvGcc
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/want-one-these-guys-nz-husky-adoption-centre-warns-abandoned-dogs-high-maintenance

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