By Emma Burrows, Evgeniy Maloletka And Kwiyeon Ha ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) \u2014 Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, J\u00f8rgen Kristensen\u2019s closest friends were his stepfather\u2019s sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. When he was bullied at school for his fair hair \u2014 an inheritance from the mainland Danish father he never knew \u2014 the dogs came to him. He first went out to fish on the ice with them alone when he was 9 years old. They nurtured the beginning of a life-long love affair and Kristensen\u2019s career as a five-time Greenlandic dog sled champion. \u201cI was just a small child. But many years later, I started thinking about why I love dogs so much,\u201d Kristensen, 62, told The Associated Press. \u201cThe… <\/p>\n
By Emma Burrows, Evgeniy Maloletka And Kwiyeon Ha ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) \u2014 Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, J\u00f8rgen Kristensen\u2019s closest friends were his stepfather\u2019s sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. When he was bullied at school for his fair hair \u2014 an inheritance from the mainland Danish father he never knew \u2014 the dogs came to him. He first went out to fish on the ice with them alone when he was 9 years old. They nurtured the beginning of a life-long love affair and Kristensen\u2019s career as a five-time Greenlandic dog sled champion. \u201cI was just a small child. But many years later, I started thinking about why I love dogs so much,\u201d Kristensen, 62, told The Associated Press. \u201cThe... <\/p>\n