Chilkoot Pass

American  

[chil-koot] / ˈtʃɪl kut /

noun

1. a mountain pass on the boundary between SE Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, in the Coast Range. About 3,500 feet (1,065 meters) high.

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Chilkoot Pass British  

/ ˈtʃɪlkuːt /

noun

1. a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range

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Example Sentences

This photo was taken in the winter of 1898, as packers were climbing up to the summit of Chilkoot Pass between the Alaska-British Columbia border just north of Skagway.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2022

Back in 1897, Ballentine stowed the starter in a flour sack and trekked over the Chilkoot Pass on his way to the Klondike gold fields.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2020

In Yukon, there are still a few sourdough starters that came over the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush and have been maintained over the last one hundred and eighteen years.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2016

The area was traditionally used as a staging area for Tlingit traders who would travel up and over the Chilkoot Pass to meet interior Athabaskan tribes and exchange goods.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2015

The plan to build a traction road over Chilkoot Pass from Dyea, the head of navigation after leaving Juneau, to Lake Linderman, is not a good business proposition.

From All about the Klondyke gold mines by Knox, J. Armoy