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| Reitan Ketil |
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 Educated with a Masters Degree in Fishery Science from the University of Tromsø, specialized in Inuit whaling. I have lived in Alaska for seven years. We lived in the village of Kaktovik, on the northeast coast of Alaska, where my wife Evelyn Anguyak comes from. Kaktovik is an inuit village with the population of 230. There are no roads to Kaktovik, and it is a one and half hour plane trip to the nearest town, Fairbanks. Here I went hunting by dog sled. I hunted caribou, dall sheep, moose, musk ox, wolf and wolverine. The Inuit hunted the bowhead whale every fall. I have also been whaling for seven seasons with my Father-in-law’s whaling crew. My father-in law, Herman Aishanna, is a very respected, hunter and whaler in Kaktovik. In the winter I ran some of the famous dog sled races in Alaska. I have ran the world’s most famous dog sled race, the Iditarod, which is 1800 kilometers (1100 miles) long, four times. In 1992 I came in 10th place, in competition with 75 of the world’s best dog mushers. I also ran the race Yukon Quest (1600 kilometers), which is considered the world’s toughest dogsled race, and also one race that started from Nome, Alaska to Anadyr in Siberia (2000 kilometers) called Hope 91. |
