Relaying the Cure: The 674-Mile Sprint to Save Nome

In January 1925, a doctor in the completely isolated, ice-bound town of Nome, Alaska, made a horrifying discovery: children were dying of diphtheria. Without an immediate supply of antitoxin, the entire population of the region would be wiped out within weeks. The closest serum was in Anchorage. With all harbors frozen solid and early airplanes utterly incapable of surviving the apocalyptic wint...