Pascale and Keith interview Alice Cyr, former Skagway interpretive guide for the National Parks Service and Alaskan cruise ship lecturer, about why the Klondike Gold Rush continues to fascinate, her favourite stampede tales and who pulled the trigger first in the shootout between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid.

Soapy Smith is one of the gold rush's most notorious names, even though he never made it to the Klondike. He found his gold in the pockets of other men. After Frank Reid shot him in Alaska's most famous shoot out, a Seattle newspaper remarked that he remained "the most popular man in Alaska."

With our stampeder Tappan Adney safely at Lindeman building his boat for the final push to the Klondike, we'll take a look at the other routes to the Klondike. Other than the so-called Rich Man's Route, most of them make the Chilkoot look like a walk in the park.

Time for the final push from Sheep Camp to the Summit. You stand at the Scales looking up at what looks like an impassable wall of grey rock, until you see a long line of Stampeders ahead of you moving slowly up the mountain. You can't turn back now, so you shoulder your pack, and try to put the Chilkoot Trail below and behind you.

In this episode, we'll follow the muddy, exhausted footsteps of a Stampeder along the Chilkoot Trail, and find out why the route is still notorious 120 years later.

Ships full of goldseekers anchor off Skagway, Alaska. There's no dock and it's chaos on the beach. How do you get your outfit off the ship and, once you do, should you take the shorter Chilkoot Trail or the flatter White Pass? One oldtimer tells you, no matter which you choose, you'll wish you took the other.

So you've decided to go get some Klondike gold. First you have to find out where the Klondike is, how to get there, and what you'll need to survive.

The S.S. Excelsior docks in San Francisco carrying a bunch of Klondike miners and an eye-popping load of gold. Mix in an economic depression and some inspired newspaper headlines, and it's enough to spark collective madness.

When Lyin' George Carmack and Kaa Goox poured the gold from their new discovery onto a saloon table in Forty Mile, the town emptied almost overnight. The biggest gold rush of all time was on, even if no one Outside knew about it yet!

The day Rabbit Creek became Bonanza Creek, and the mayhem that ensued. Wait till word reaches Outside...