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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 664365" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Stampeders climbing the Chilcoot Pass - 65 died in just one avalanche, many died of typhoid and those who fell crossing rivers often drowned under the weight of their packs.. They were required to carry enough supplies to last them a year (presumably there would have been ample fresh meat once there) - they used Tinglit packers as the load was one tonne. On one day 7000 home-made boats set off across Lake Lindeman as the ice thawed. 3200 horses died on the alternative White Pass trail. It was this stark wilderness that 100,000 prospectors tried to cross on foot, and in homemade boats, during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s. The “stampeders,” as they were known, were desperate to reach the gold fields around Dawson City, but the journey took more than two months, and was so punishing and dangerous that only 30,000 made it through. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]8255[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]8256[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]8257[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 664365, member: 4386"] Stampeders climbing the Chilcoot Pass - 65 died in just one avalanche, many died of typhoid and those who fell crossing rivers often drowned under the weight of their packs.. They were required to carry enough supplies to last them a year (presumably there would have been ample fresh meat once there) - they used Tinglit packers as the load was one tonne. On one day 7000 home-made boats set off across Lake Lindeman as the ice thawed. 3200 horses died on the alternative White Pass trail. It was this stark wilderness that 100,000 prospectors tried to cross on foot, and in homemade boats, during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s. The “stampeders,” as they were known, were desperate to reach the gold fields around Dawson City, but the journey took more than two months, and was so punishing and dangerous that only 30,000 made it through. [ATTACH type="full"]8255[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]8256[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="868px"]8257[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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