Duluth's Emily Ford pauses for photos with two of her dogs after finishing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday in Nome, Ala. It was Ford's first attempt at running the legendary ...

Emily Ford, the 34-year-old native of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, who now calls Duluth home, spent 13 days mushing her dogs along the Yukon River in Alaska in this year's Iditarod race. Ford says it ...

Add a historic Iditarod across Alaska to Emily Ford’s résumé of extreme winter feats. Under bright sunshine, the rookie musher from Duluth and her team of 10 Alaskan huskies crossed the finish ...

At approximately 4:35 pm Central Time on Sunday, Duluthian Emily Ford completed her first Iditarod. Wearing bib #34, it took her 13 days, 1 hour, 35 minutes, and 44 seconds to complete the race.

Duluthian Emily Ford is currently the top rookie racing in the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. As of Tuesday afternoon, Ford was in 12th place, the highest spot currently held by a rookie.

Dog musher Emily Ford just hoped to finish. Yet, 582 miles and nearly seven days into the 1,000-plus-mile Iditarod across ...

After spending nearly two weeks traversing more than 1,100 miles of the Alaska wilderness, Duluth’s Emily Ford finished her first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday. Ford and her team passed ...

Ford, 32, will be written into Iditarod history as the second Black woman to complete it — a distinction she proudly pursued. Musher Becca Moore of Willow, Alaska, blazed the trail in 2015 and 2016.