It Took 41 Years For Someone To Tie George Attla's Fur Rondy Record

Buddy Streeper Wins His 10th Fur Rondy Championship 

George Attla in the Copper River Classic at the Gulkana River. (Photo, Linda Weld) 

George Attla, The Huslia Hustler, Held That Slot For Over 40 Years – Since 1982 

George Attla, the world-famous musher from Huslia, held onto the title of winning the most World Championships in the Fur Rendezvous Sled Dog Race for 41 years. 

Attla was one of the most proficient, well-known and popular Alaskan mushers...  ever. He had a knack with dogs, using techniques that came straight out of the villages and local spring races.

George Attla won the Fur Rondy in 1958, 1962, 1968, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, and 1982.

He did this despite a fused leg that resulted from contracting tuberculosis as a child. As an adult, Attla used his leg to kick the sled along.

Buddy Streeper is from Fort Nelson in British Columbia, He's been single-mindedly working his way up the rungs of victory to match George Attla.

It took more than 4 decades for anyone to even tie the Huslia Hustler.