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Tierra del Fuego, ARGENTINA

Pedro Curuchet, 47, will be the first entrant in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from South America. In his early years he lived around mountains in Argentina and started learning about mountaineering. Later on in another location he took a course in sailing and diving. He’s lived in Ushuaia for 27 years and says now he is “devoted to Siberian Husky breeding.”

He actually began mushing in 1990 and came to Alaska in 1993 to learn more. He met the late Joe Redington, Sr. while he was in Alaska and some of the Minnesota mushers when he visited there. While in this country Pedro learned “how to build sleds and a lot of secrets to breeding dogs.” He became interested in eventually running the Iditarod after that visit to the United States. He’s done some long expeditions in Patagonia with his dogs and carried out the first expedition for the Continental Ice in Patagonia.

Pedro is an advisory of the Museum of the End of the World. Currently he owns a small winter tourist center where he uses his dogs with tourists. He also organized a sled dog race in Ushuaia. Pedro is married and has one daughter, Lucia, age 10. He says his hobbies are dogs, mushing, trekking, expeditions and camping.

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