As an Anchorage cardiologist, Mark Selland has an impressive resume: medical school, internships, cardiology fellowships. But he also has an impressive resume when it comes to outdoor escapades.
He's skied over the Harding Ice Field from Seward to Homer, traversed the Brooks Range, floatHe says ed through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and climbed an impressive number of peaks -- notching six of the Seven Summits (he's missing Australia's Mount Kosciusko), including Everest and Denali.
But for Selland, running the Iditarod, as he plans to this year, isn't about checking another accomplishment off a list.
"This is not a bucket list," he said in an interview last week. "I don't have a bucket list of things I want to do."
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