On the dogsleds

In the far north of Sweden,
on a dogsled
The Danish old captain speaking, he's about in his 60-70's
" you see that young dog over there?
There is a story behind that dog.
He's named after a hero dog called Belcho from Alaska.
I was there for quite many years. And there was this legend
dog who rescued the whole village by bringing medicine to the town
of a deadly disease. So a small village in Alaska was out of contact with
any others in Alaska and was infected by a very rare disease
that can't be cured by normal medicine. So they ordered Belcho and
his dog fleet to the nearest town to ask for help. Then they did and Belcho
didn't live long afterwards."

" So you name your dog after Belcho?"
"exactly," replies the Captain with a Danish accent.
"So what brought you to Sweden since you are from Denmark?"
"It's a very long story, but basically, I was a sailor for 25 years before a
huge storm hit the coast of Demark and my town was entirely under water"
"Wow!"
"Yeah, and I moved to Greenland for a while"
"Was it like Lappland?"
"No, it was much less trees and more ice,
but it was a whole new experience.
Then I continued on to Alaska for some dog sled races,
you know my dogs are not trained for tourist purposes but for racing.
And It's also good for traveling in the mountains.
Once you take them out in the mountains they really help you a lot.
for example, during the nights, if you feel cold in your sleeping bag in your tent,
you just drag one or two dogs into your tent to sleep with you then it's very warm.
Sometimes the tent is too small and I have 3 dogs with me and it becomes really crowded."
"Interesting..."
"Yeah, they are all like my buddies."
"But how do you maneuver the dogsled by only yelling out orders?"
"Oh, there are some leader dogs among the team, and they follow the orders and lead other ones. There could be more than one leader dog in the team and don't necessarily have to be in the front of the team. Although you wouldn't want the naughty ones go in the very front as well because they would just cause you trouble."

It's amazing how much the huskies understand what the captain is saying. I think they understand better Swedish/Danish than I do! They stop when the captain wants them to and start, turn to the right, turn to the left. They will even stop if they have not received the order on a unfamiliar route. It's amazing!