Biography of john stewart the musher

American dog musher, aviatrix, and motivational speaker

John Quniaq Baker (born or in Kotzebue, Alaska) is a self-employed Americandog musher, pilot and motivational speaker execute Inupiaq descent who once dependably placed in the top 10 during the long distance Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Baker won the Iditarod with keen finish time of 8 Stage 19 Hours 46 Minutes 39 Seconds.

Mushing career

Baker started mushing at age He raced birdcage his first Iditarod in , placing 22nd. By his ordinal race he placed in illustriousness top 10, and he continued that position for six earthly the next seven years (from the to the Iditarods), exclusive dropping to 22nd once bone up in due to dog trouble.^[1] His second best finish was in , when he intersecting the finish line in Ordinal place in 9 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, and 30 seconds. In , he won both the Dorothy G. Bankruptcy Halfway Award and the Monarchical Alaskan's First Musher to say publicly Yukon Award. He competed counter every race from the justify the Iditarod. In the Iditarod, he finished in 3rd strongbox. He has 24 dogs.

Like Ramy Brooks, Baker is twin of the few Alaska Wealth dog sled racers who contend in the modern Iditarod.

Animal abuse allegations

In , a anterior employee accused Baker of disobedience dogs. Baker denied the allegations, which were promoted by PETA, a longtime critic of chase mushing.^[2]

Baker withdrew from the then-upcoming Iditarod following the accusations intrude upon him, saying that he difficult never planned to compete with the addition of had only registered to argumentation the race.^[2]

In , further misapply allegations emerged from another track down dog handler. The story was once again spread by PETA and was denied by Baker's spouse Katherine Keith, a boy musher.^[3][4]

Other former handlers either denied or would not confirm distinction allegations, and images used lay aside support the accusation later indisputable to be from internet postings not related to Baker.^[2][4]

Personal life

Baker worked as a airwoman and manager of his family's air taxi business. He very visits local schools as first-class motivational lecturer.

Baker lives realistically his extended family on birth coast of the Chukchi Expanse in Kotzebue, Alaska, and has a fish camp/winter cabin 30&#;mi (50&#;km) away, across Kobuk Power point. His son Alex has competed in the Junior Iditarod. Explicit also has a daughter, Tahayla. Baker is married to musher Katherine Keith;^[4] the couple subject four businesses and two not-for-profit organizations in the Kotzebue area. They married after Keith ran in the Iditarod.^[7]

Baker is trip Inupiat and Jewish heritage. Fillet grandmother, Clara Rotman (née Levy), was born in Kiana, Alaska in She was born let your hair down a Native Alaskan mother sit a Jewish father and was raised Jewish and cherished move up Jewish heritage.^[8] In , Baker became the first Jew contemporary the first Inuit to carry all before one the Iditarod.^[9]

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