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The Race to Alaska

Specs: USA | 2019 | 98 min
Filmmaker: Zach Carver and Ian Morland
Theme: inspiration

750 miles. Icy water. No motors. No support. This epic endurance race attracts the intrepid and unhinged who find their edge along a coastline that is as punishing as it is beautiful. THE RACE TO ALASKA is a documentary following the visceral experience of racers as they compete in one of the most difficult endurance challenges in the world. Described as “the Iditarod, on a boat, with a chance of drowning or being eaten by a grizzly bear,” it’s amazing anyone enters at all. There are no motors and no support – and nobody finishes without a story. It's an adrenaline-fuelled, 750-mile boat race through the dangerous and spectacular wilderness of the Inside Passage to Alaska. The film is a raw account of pulling through, again and again – a window into what collective stamina looks like.

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