Pete, as you may know, has not long returned from his charity trek in the Andes.

But no matter how good your story, there’s always someone who can top it.

On his return, he got an email from his uncle, telling the tale of his own, rather more extreme adventure.

Apparently, in March and April of this year, Uncle Christopher and his son, Angus, went dog-sledding across artic Alaska for three weeks, camping out in the wilderness in temperatures up to minus 35 degrees.

Not even for charity.  Just for the hell of it.

Only Uncle Christopher didn’t quite make it.  After two days of his Arctic trek, he got severe frostbite on both hands and spent the next seven to eight weeks being treated.

As he rather glibly put it, “It could have been worse – I only lost bits of three fingers.”

Angus continued the trip for three weeks and took many wonderful pictures, like the example above.  You can see the others, as well as some amazing video footage, on his blog of the trip.

Here’s the link.

Doggone it.