Husky News

Will take place this year from January 11th to 21st, 2009

Since the first event in January 2005, La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc (LGO) has been the most difficult international sled-dog race in the world due to the type of mountains it runs through.

Each year it brings together 25 of the best mushers in the world: Along with their Alaskan and Siberian huskies, they cover more than 800 km of Savoie and Haute Savoie and climb more than 25,000 m through the massifs of the Franco-Swiss region of Portes du Soleil and along the valley of Haute Maurienne Vanoise via Megève and Notre Dame de Bellecombe.

With the legendary Iditarod and Yukon Quest, La Grande Odyssée Savoie-Mont-Blanc has established itself as the only major sled-dog race to be both a long distance race and a stage race.

This “Great White” adventure also includes a host of programs, parties, festivals and conferences which set the pace for life in 27 Franco-Swiss ski resorts every year in January.

La Grande Odyssée Savoie-Mont-Blanc has become established as the international sled-dog race with the “most”:

- the most technically difficult with 25,000m of height difference in total
- the most international (at least 12 nations represented)
- the most popular (more than 100,000 spectators expected)
- the most media coverage

Source: La Grande Odyssee Savoie-Mont-Blanc