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

When the Klondike Gold Rush erupted the following year, he took off for the Chilkoot Pass to join the adventure.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2014

Five minutes of struggling in the current found him safe on the opposite shore to that upon which the lower portion of the trail to Chilkoot Pass lay.

From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Stratemeyer, Edward