Yukon Passage 1/6
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Build a raft and float it with yer pals. Four adventurers journey down the Yukon river to the Bering Sea, retracing the steps of gold rush prospectors. Late 1970's documentary narrated by Jimmy Stewart. Part 1/6
I've had this vid for nearly 30 years...one of the best ones NGS ever did. Asking Jimmy Stewart narrate it was a stroke of genius. I, too, have often wondered what happened to the guys......
best documentary ever
This film and the Nat Geo article provided endless dreams and inspiration for me as a youth (contributing to the vision of Nahanni.com). Thanks Bob and crew for fueling the imagination of a generation. You enacted a chronicle of the historic events and a contemporary journey in the context of the 1970's. I know other commentators will write about the effects of the rush on the First Nations people of the country. That is another important story to be told. Your odyssey remains an inspiring saga that touched a generation. Many thanks! - Curious viewers should know that Bob (Robert) Clark, worked for Tourism Yukon in Whitehorse until retirement, and is a great guy!
Thanks for the info, I found a write up they did providing a little update. Great group of friends and very entertaining to watch. I only wish I was alive during the '70s so I could have done something like this. Different breed back then, that's for sure.
Thanks for posting this. In my mid-20's (Summer 1990) I backpacked through Can. and AK and followed much of the same route as these guys (though not in the dead of Winter and I didn't do the rafting thing.) I read Keith Tryck's book (which I also got off a bookseller and which also was signed by him) and have communicated with him on a couple of occasions. Last I heard he is currently on the city or county council in Anchorage. One of the most important docs of my formative years (13yo in 1977.)
Loved this documentary since I seen it on the BBC as a kid. I have been trying to locate it for years. Thanks for posting - the narrator never registered when I was a kid. More documentary makers should consider well known voices.
Thanks for uploading this. I’ve been looking for it for years.
Thank you so much for uploading this! I ordered the VHS tape from Amazon a few years ago just to watch it again!
great adventure
tavives....your info is accurate. I've had some communication with Keith in the last few months. In addition to some politicking, he's made several trips back up into the Yukon to pan for gold, since the price is going sky-high.
I'm three years older than you; like yourself, this vid was an important part of my growing-up years.....
I had a VHS of it!!!
This was a neat documentary. However... i can't figure out how they managed to build the raft at lake bennett and then float it all the way down past carmacks. I'm going to look into it some more but i'm pretty sure that as of 1958 or so there is a dam on the yukon downstream of miles canyon at whitehorse. Even if this doc was made during a time when the dam was not in place miles canyon and the whitehorse rapids would have been an impassible obstacle for the raft.
Yes, also they would have had to float under the Tagish bridge, unless there's another route I don't know about. They could have removed the mast but seeing the amount of work that involved lifting it I would say they probably didn't.
@wizwow77 ---The really cool thing is they did it TWICE..I've been in touch with Keith Tryck, who lives in Anchorage. I'm drawing from memory, but I think he told me Paul & Bob live close by, and Jerry lives in Washington state. Keith still does a little prospecting in the Yukon. The cabin they built in the video is still there. I'd suggest buying Keith's book that chronicled their trip(s), "Yukon Passage"---It's a good read....
Thanks for this tid bit, I had no idea they had also written a book. Definitely going to give it a read.
@captainscott2 yeah i wonder to how these dudes ended up..they had one hell of an adventure.
Yu-kon Tiki!