Mr Whittle said: "The
ice road is a huge frozen river, the Peel River, where the ice is a couple of metres thick, all covered with a few feet of snow.
Here, blue lines represent seasonal ice trails (left) and
ice road (right).
"As you can imagine, being in the oil and gas business for a long time, we use a lot of heavy equipment and it has to fit on a C-130 to get it to Alpine, so we end up building thirty miles of
ice road every year.
Ice Road Truckers follows truckers who take supplies across frozen lakes.
"
Ice Road Truckers" star Todd Dewey took to his Facebook page on Monday to share photos and kind words about Ward.
He said: "I always wanted to be in the Army when I was younger but never expected to be
ice road trucking even after it came on the TV.
A MIDLAND soldier who was hooked on TV's
Ice Road Truckers died when his giant rig careered off the frozen Alaskan highway featured in the show.
The Highway has featured in reality TV show
Ice Road Truckers, which was first broadcast in the UK by Channel 5 in February 2008.
ICE ROAD TRUCKERS: DEADLIEST ROADS Channel 5, 7pm While
Ice Road Truckers is mostly dominated by testosterone, this week, it's all about the females - Betty and Mathilda to be precise.
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ICE ROAD TRUCKERS: DEADLIEST ROADS Tim and Tino challenge Hugh to a race.
From there it will be delivered to site via the 320 kilometre long
ice road which is constructed annually.
D.M., via email IT'S clear from Kevin Ritchie's rant about artics that he hasn't watched
Ice Road Truckers.