Balto -

While the dog and musher Leonhard Seppala ran the longest and most dangerous leg (about 260 miles), Balto was the lead dog for the final 53-mile stretch into Nome.

At one point, the sled flipped in the gale, burying the medicine in the snow. Kaasen had to dig it out with his bare hands before continuing. While the dog and musher Leonhard Seppala ran

The story of Balto is a legendary tale of endurance and survival from the 1925 "Great Race of Mercy," where a relay of sled dog teams raced across the Alaskan wilderness to save the town of Nome from a deadly diphtheria outbreak. The Race Against Death the sled flipped in the gale