A year after snowmobile attack, musher Aliy Zirkle to return to Iditarod

Aliy Zirkle, one of dog mushing’s leading figures, has suffered panic attacks in the year since she and musher Jeff King were attacked by a drunken snowmobile driver on an isolated stretch of the Iditarod race across Alaska. Both Zirkle and King are slated for the 2017 race.