HISTORY
The beginnings
Nick Evans first started running sled dogs in 1984 at the age of 15 years old, for a lady who owned two Siberian Huskies called Dobchek and Bambi. After a couple of years learning the basics, Nick went on to run his first two Greenland dogs (Eskimo dogs) called Maud and Bruno.
Maud and Bruno were 4 years old when they came to Nick, which was quite old to start running in harness, so the start was a little disastrous.
After a couple of years of training and racing they really started to get the hang of things.
Maud and Bruno loved everything on the trail,
which meant that they were easily distracted from their main task, which was to pull a three-wheeled rig around a forest trail as quickly as possible.
With too many spectators to lick, and too many trees to lift your leg on, the process was slow to begin with, but with some practice they got better and better.
So Team Ice Fire had begun. Nick introduced a third member to the team called Dorcas,
and Nick and his three dogs were happy to do a little racing,
but mostly preferred their own company in the woods.
After several years of running in the UK, the dogs retired at the ripe old age of eleven, and eventually their eventful lives came to an end. This of course was heartbreaking, and Nick then decided to focus on his career and said that he would never again go through the pain of losing your "best friends".
A boyhood dream
After a break from Greenland dogs, Nick decided in January 2003 to try and fulfil his boyhood dream and compete in the Iditarod (the last great race on earth). Nick's dream is to take the first British dog team to Alaska, and the first pure bred Greenland team, and go up against the worlds best Alaskan Husky teams.
Nick approached the only Greenland dog club registered breeders in the UK, 
and a litter of puppies were bred, in which Nick received four puppies called Rupert, Rhee, Libby and Lester. Even though it was only four Greenland dogs,
it was a positive start, and Team Ice Fire was about to start again.
Due to the difficulty of getting Greenland dogs in the UK, Nick then went to Norway and purchased a further five Greenland dogs, all with their own personalities and all from different backgrounds. The dogs flew in to Heathrow airport under the passport scheme, and became British citizens, and never looked back.
Nicks aim is to run fourteen Greenland dogs in the Iditarod, and after two litters of puppies , Team Ice Fire has now grown to sixteen. Sixteen very loud, attention seeking sled dogs who live to run, and have ran in eight different countries in the last two years. Nick says that his dogs are better traveled than most people he knows.