Expedition will trace Cork woman’s courage

MY husband and I live in rural Alaska. We have a kennel of sled dogs and in the winter do a variety of things, including racing, running tours and undertaking expeditions.

This winter I will be undertaking a 350-mile historical dogsledding expedition — and this is where I am hoping Irish Examiner readers may be able to help me.

I’ve been reading about Nellie Cashman, who was born in Co Cork in 1845. She was an adventurer, philanthropist and a woman of courage. When she was in her late 50s and 60s she would regularly mush a team of dogs 350 miles from mining camps north of the Arctic Circle to Nenana, Alaska, to get supplies.