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. The videoreel is an unfinished edit using the Wilderness River source material and presenting the journey sequentially. This videoreel covers the first part of the trip, driving from Albuquerque, New Mexico, up to British Columbia, and then to the Yukon Territory of Canada. It also includes the beginning the boat journey along the Yukon River from Bennett Lake to Fort Selkirk. Man and woman getting into a car, which then is seen taking off along a road. Town with v iews of large ornate building exteriors. Natural vistas, including snow-capped mountains. A small black bear looks into a car and walks down a street. A car drives past a lake and down a forested street. Views of another camera filming people in front of a building with large letters reading "CBC" horizontally and…
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- Running time
- 62 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Yukon
- Alaska
- British Columbia
- Klondike
- expedition
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