Synopsis
This video contains footage filmed by Karl Kernberger on a 1963 trip driving through Canada to Alaska and then down the Yukon River on 2300-mile boat journey. The boat trip along the Yukon River began at Lake Bennett in British Columbia and ended in Alakanuk, Alaska, on the Bering Sea. Other members of the expedition included Kernberger’s friend J. Michael Jenkinson, Rafen Moon (Kathy) Jenkinson, Bill Carpenter, and John Loehr. A Swiss reporter, Maurice Bettex, also joined the group for some of the 3-month river trip. Kernberger documented this trip, planning to produce a documentary film. The project was never completed, but Kernberger used the footage to create various edited versions of the material. Footage from this segment of film is an edited version, not presented sequentially. Footage includes: A high perspective of a structure connected to a bridge on the side of a mountain. Views from a boat moving down the river, including the sides of mountains and small white homes. People swimming off of a small boat. Images of the sun shining from behind a pole. A creek runs through melting snow. Blue tinted images of natural scenes and a house are then repeated in natural colors.
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Details
- Running time
- 7 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Yukon
- Alaska
- British Columbia
- Klondike
- expedition
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