Photo of the Day 264

Dogsled Team, Greenland, 2006

Photograph by David McLain

Greenland dogs are descended from canines that accompanied immigrants from Siberia some 5,000 years ago. This team, driving across Greenland's Sermipaluk Glacier, is tethered to the sled with a fan hitch, a type of harness that allows each dog to pick its own way across rough and dangerous terrain.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Last Days of the Ice Hunters," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)