– Mushers and Their Sled Dog Teams endure more than a thousand miles of Unforgiving Alaskan Wilderness along the Iditarod Trail in Hopes of Making it Across the Finish Line –

(Wasilla, Alaska) – (Thursday, September 11, 2008) The Iditarod Trail Committee has been informed that Discovery’s premier of  TOUGHEST RACE ON EARTH: IDITAROD, will air Tuesday, October 14th at 10 PM ET/PT. The six hour miniseries follows mushers and their sled dog teams across more than a thousand miles of rugged terrain as they take on Mother Nature – and each other – in The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Stay logged on to http://www.iditarod.com/ for updated information about the “TOUGHEST RACE ON EARTH: IDITAROD.”