EAST Lancashire adventurer Lesley Monk made history as the first British woman to take part in a gruelling 1,155 mile race across the icy wastes of Alaska.
Lesley, 37, and her husband Roy, spent five years training husky dogs on their farm at Worsthorne, near Burnley. She was pulled by one of her own dogs Trinka, and carried a gun to fend off killer moose.
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