Many Alaskans revel in the biting air and the pure white of the winter landscape, not to mention the skiing, ice-climbing and snow machine-riding.

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They add that his land is accessible by foot and horseback during the summer, by snow machine during the winter, and by aircraft nearly all the year.

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He's a lifelong commercial fisherman ... a production operator in the oil fields of Alaska's North Slope ... a proud member of the United Steel Workers Union ... and world champion snow machine racer.

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In early February a classic snow-machine race, the 2, 000-mile Iron Dog, was cancelled for the first time in its 20-year history.

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Snow-machine dealers have no customers.

ECONOMIST: The state is getting warmer and no one's happy

Mass production, Mr. Snow shows, was really a revolution in machine tools.

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The burial ground was so large that a machine had to be used to dig a hole, before Keiko was slid across the snow to the grave under the cover of night, with just seven people present.

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