(AP Photo, File) Gunnar Kaasen poses with his original dog team, including his lead dog Balto, top row, second left, in 1925, which he drove through a blinding blizzard to deliver life-saving serum, ...

The pair were on hand for the unveiling of a bronze statue heralding Balto’s life-saving actions ... of antitoxin to the isolated city of Nome, Alaska, where children were dying of diphtheria ...

2, 1925, Balto led Kaasen’s team into Nome with the diphtheria ... and the team. After the statue was dedicated, Kaasen returned to Alaska, discouraged by the lifestyle Outside and disagreements ...

A statue in New York's Central Park, shown in December 1947, was erected to honor Balto and other dogs that pulled mushers and their diphtheria serum-bearing sleds to Nome, Alaska, through a ...

FILE – The statue erected to honor “Balto” and other heroic sled dogs who carried serum to Nome, Alaska, through an Arctic blizzard is covered in snow in New York’s Central Park ...

It's likely the toll was greater, because Alaska Natives were not accurately tracked. Balto gains fame as unlikely dog to bring serum to Nome Seppala and Togo missed the limelight that went to his ...

At the start of 1925, the small isolated city of Nome ... trained both Togo and Balto, and while he declared that Togo was “the best dog that ever traveled the Alaska trail,” he described ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver ...