Chilkoot Pass

The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park commemorates the last of the great gold rushes, and the centerpiece of the park is the 32-mile long Chilkoot Trail. And the dominant image of the trail is the steep summit climb where more than 10,000 men, women, children, pack animals, dogs and chickens struggled up the summit climb in the dead of the winter of 1897-98. This book tells the dramatic and desperate story of the gold rush, and includes a guide to the trail today. The author has hiked the trail five times and as a result knows it intimately.