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The following are newspaper articles that Polly has written about the Yukon and dogsledding.
Mush, my beauties – we’re a long way from Jamaica: Sunday Times, 23 September 2007. 'They say the Yukon Quest
is the toughest dogsledding race in the world. It runs each Februrary between Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory and Fairbanks,
Alaska, across 1,000 miles of frozen wasteland. For 10 days mushers survive alone with their dogs in temperatures as low as
minus 40C – surely no environment for a Jamaican. But that’s not how Devon Anderson sees it...' Full article
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The Coldest Miles: Independent on Sunday, 30 July 2006
'We had no idea how cold it was. Our thermormeter recorded temperatures to minus thirty but the mercury had slunk well
below its bottom-most marker. It was as though the liquid was, like us, hunkering down to conserve every last droplet of heat...'
Full article
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Of all the gin joints in all the the world: Sunday Times, 24 June 2007
'You enter the Sourdough Saloon, John Wayne style, through
double swing doors. The plush flock wallpaper and long velvet benches hark back to the 1890s, when prospectors stampeded to
the creeks of the Klondike river and Dawson City briefly boomed...' Full article
To read a greater selection of Polly's articles, go to her website.
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