World view: Ice road truckers at the Québec Winter Carnival — theguardian.com

They breed them tough in Québec City, where the mercury rarely creeps above -6C in winter and the small matter of the mighty St Lawrence river icing over didn't stand in the way of the region's early settlers and their canoes. That's why every winter for the past 60 years at the Québec Winter Carnival, crews of five athletes slide, scramble and row through the ice floes in a race from Québec City to Lévis

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