The Iditarod: The Last Great Race on Earth

“Let me start by saying that I am not much of a sports fan,” the Toronto-based photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim told me while recounting his experience photographing the thousand-and-forty-nine-mile race across Alaska, for Ben McGrath’s piece about the Iditarod, the self-proclaimed “last great race on earth,” in this week’s Journeys Issue. “This is not only a race of strength and endurance,” Vincent Elkaim said, “but one of complex strategy and mind games.”