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So I'm gonna tell you
straight up,
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from the very beginning,
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I have not feared that curse,
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plain and simple.
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I know there's a lot of gold,
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and I know I can get it.
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That's what I'm doing.
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[Narrator] It is said
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somewhere,
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hidden deep
within the mountains
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of Pitt Lake,
British Columbia
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lies a source of pure gold
worth billions.
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It is a tale passed down
through generations,
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with a lure of wealth
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beyond human imagination...
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[Kru] This is over
a 100-year-old mystery.
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I heard this
when I was a teenager.
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It's bigger than big time,
it's legendary.
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[Adam]
The legend describes
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that there's a creek
covered with gold.
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There's nuggets everywhere.
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We're looking for
Slumach's gold mine.
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[Taylor] The story
is about this Slumach guy
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that found gold.
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[Fred] That Slumach
was a murderer,
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killing to protect the gold
that he had found.
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As he stood on the gallows,
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Slumach expressed a curse.
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[Kru] "When I die,
the mine dies."
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[Adam] A death sentence
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to anyone that tries
to find his gold.
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[Narrator] ...but Slumach was
just the start of the story...
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Nice to meet you.
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This has been in my family
for years.
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No way.
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Wow!
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[Don] You don't
wanna fall in here.
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This is straight down.
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Sketchy.
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[Narrator] ...the legend ignited
a treacherous 100-year search
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for his gold.
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[Fred] The terrain
is absolutely impossible.
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[Adam] You're not
freaking out, are ya?
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It is life-threatening
everywhere.
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[Kru] This is terrain
people don't come back from.
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-[ice cracking]
-It's started to break apart.
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We're talking major
coastal weather systems
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that will kill you.
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If you don't find it
in three months,
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you're waiting
till the next year.
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If the gold
was easily accessible,
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there would be no legends.
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[Narrator] Now
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a new team of gold hunters
and adventurers...
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-We're like right over it.
-That is really, really cool.
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You can see the circular design
around the top.
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[Narrator] ...bands together
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to solve
the 100-year-old mystery...
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[♪♪♪♪♪]
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[Kru] Something happened
to this guy.
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[Narrator] ...to find the gold,
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and test the truth
behind the legend
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and the curse.
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[Taylor] We're not alone,
I'll just say that.
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[Kru] People have died,
people have disappeared,
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people don't come back.
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This is what he was after.
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[Kru] We're not going to make
the same mistakes.
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Watch out!
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That is beautiful.
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Oh yeah.
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There is no better motivation
than gold.
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[♪♪♪♪♪]
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Hi. I'm Bill Burrud,
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the program is "Treasure,"
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and our story
is an exciting one
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about John Slumach,
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who's supposed to have
had a gold mine
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hidden away in the wild
Pitt Lake mountain country
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just 60 miles from Vancouver,
British Columbia.
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Shrouded in legend,
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cursed for over 68 years
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by the ghost of its owner.
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Anyone who looks
for the Lost Creek Mine
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is walking
right into a death trap.
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All the way down,
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I want you to go through.
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Mix up your strikes.
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Work on balance.
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All right. [claps]
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I'm Kru Williams.
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I'm a Mixed Martial Arts
Instructor
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and prospector.
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I believe in God, gold,
and guns.
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[exhaling sharply]
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I've been in the fight game
pretty much all my life.
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Fighting in the streets,
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to Muay Thai overseas,
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to MMA over here.
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[exhaling sharply]
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I'm passionate about life.
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In it for the fun.
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I love finding gold.
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'Cause when I'm out there,
I'm in the zone.
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There's nothing more addictive
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than panning out some pay dirt,
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and seeing those
pretty little easter eggs
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pop up out of the black sand.
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Obviously if I'm
on the outside looking in,
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yeah, it's gold fever, okay,
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but when you're on the gold,
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you need to be on the gold.
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[chainsaw buzzing]
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In 2022,
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I made the decision
to prospect full-time.
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With this mission
to find Slumach's gold,
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I'm putting it all on the line.
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[Narrator]
Pitt Lake, British Columbia,
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home to some of the most
difficult terrain in the world.
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[Kru] I know fighting
and prospecting.
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Climbing glaciers?
Not so much.
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To be able to go to the routes
that Slumach did,
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you've gotta be proficient
in everything.
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At the end of the day,
you need an Adam.
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My name is Adam Palmer.
I'm a mountaineer.
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[laughs] Mountaineer...
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It sounds weird
to say "I'm a mountaineer."
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I'm a mountaineer.
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You want to check it out
and see if it's okay or not?
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[Adam chuckling]
You're scared?
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[Kru]
You're pretty good at that.
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Somebody who'll actually
go to the places
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that no one will go...
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climb the things
that no one will climb...
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...and let you know
what's on the other side
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or underneath something.
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So, yeah, you need an Adam.
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[laughs]
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-You do this for fun?
-Every day.
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[laughs] Every day.
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Well, Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays.
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I first heard about
the Lost Creek Gold Mine
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when I was 12 years old.
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I've been searching
for 20 years.
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I met Kru at the gym.
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We got talking.
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We realized
we had a shared passion
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for finding Slumach's gold.
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We both grew up
watching the same shows,
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and reading the same books
about this legend.
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Welcome to "Gold Trails
and Ghost Towns."
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I'm Mike Roberts,
and with me is Bill Barlee.
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Today we've got a story
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that'll just raise the hair
on the back of your neck.
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The treasure
is sometimes called
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the Lost Mine of Pitt Lake.
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I'd rather call it
Slumach's Lost Mine.
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On the 16th of January
in 1891, he is hanged.
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"Nika memloose, mine memloose."
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It means, "When I die,
the mine dies."
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Every time I'd watch that show,
it put me in a good mood,
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and, you know,
just kind of stoke the fire
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to find that gold.
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I think this particular
treasure still exists.
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[Adam] Looking for
the Lost Creek Gold Mine
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isn't just about
finding gold,
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this is about solving
a 150-year-old mystery.
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The top figure
has some sort of weapon.
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[Narrator] Dusting off
a 100-year-old mystery
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takes more than muscle,
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so Adam has turned
to a close friend
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with a unique set of skills.
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[Adam] When you go
through areas with rich history,
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you look for people
that know that history.
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My name is Fulamaluk Khalatia,
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but my English name,
my given name,
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is Taylor Starr.
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Taylor is one of the strongest
assets we have on this team.
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[Kru] Eagle-eyed Taylor
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sees things that, you know,
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a seasoned hunter
won't even see out there.
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There's more tracks
right down here.
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This is definitely
an adult wolf,
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'cause you see how big it is
compared to my hand.
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[Adam] She has this intimate
knowledge of the land
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that will help us
solve this puzzle.
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[Narrator] For Taylor,
the story is personal.
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Taylor is
the great-great-grand-niece
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of Slumach.
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[Taylor] My grandma is from
the Katzie First Nations
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where Slumach is from,
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so then I started doing
a little research,
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and I'm like, "Well, shoot,
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I'm related to this guy."
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[Narrator] But growing up
in Seabird Island First Nation,
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Taylor knew little
about her great uncle Slumach.
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[Taylor] When I was growing up,
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I never heard anything
about Slumach.
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He was essentially
banished from history.
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Just poof! Gone.
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[Narrator]
As for his fabled fortune...
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[Taylor] Historically,
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gold never meant anything
to First Nations people,
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apart from everybody
trampling on our land
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to go and find it.
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For me,
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the gold is actually
completing this family tree.
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We find the gold,
we finish Slumach's story.
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[Narrator] Now, a prospector,
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a mountaineer,
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and a truth-seeker
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band together
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to travel trails gone cold
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of those who never made it back
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in the search for Slumach's
legendary lost gold.
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We got a lot of stuff
to look through, eh?
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[Narrator] West of Pitt Lake,
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at their new
Seabird Island base...
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Is this the first one?
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[Narrator] ...Adam and Kru
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begin their search
with early reports
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of gold-seekers
inspired by the Slumach legend.
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You start at the beginning,
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and you go through all this,
and you find, you know,
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little bits of information
here and there that just add up.
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The best way to find
Slumach's gold
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is to follow those
who followed him.
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[Kru]
If you want to find something,
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talk to someone
who's already found it.
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That's Walter Jackson.
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[Narrator]
Slumach was hanged in 1891.
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10 years later,
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American Walter Jackson
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made multiple trips
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into the British Columbian
wilderness,
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where, reports claim,
he found Slumach's gold.
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"Every season
for several years
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he came out late in the fall
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with 5,000 to 7,000
in gold nuggets."
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Back then,
thousands of dollars.
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Can you imagine what
that's actually worth now?
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-Big find.
-That's huge.
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[Narrator] The story goes,
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after finding
Slumach's gold source,
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Jackson was weighed down
with too much gold to carry out,
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so he buried
what he couldn't transport,
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not knowing it would be
his last expedition.
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Back home in San Francisco,
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Jackson fell gravely ill.
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On his deathbed,
he wrote a letter to a friend
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with clues to the location
of his hidden treasure.
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Any prospector who's out there
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looking for this gold
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has got a copy of that letter
in their back pocket.
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That's the reason
they're out there
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in the first place.
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[Narrator]
But over a century,
258
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clues revealed
in the Jackson letter
259
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have been lost,
260
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or purposefully omitted.
261
00:10:09,369 --> 00:10:10,906
[Kru] Someone
changed words in there,
262
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someone redacted information
263
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so that you can't find the gold.
264
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[Narrator] ...but key details
in the letter were constant.
265
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This is the one
that I grew up on, you know,
266
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with the tent-shaped rock.
267
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"I came to a place
where the bedrock was bare,
268
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and there,
you could hardly believe me,
269
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the bedrock
was yellow with gold.
270
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I buried part of the gold
271
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at the foot of a large
tent-shaped rock."
272
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"The canyon is guarded
by three peaks.
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[Adam] The key clues
274
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and the key indicators
of this letter
275
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are, you know, three peaks.
276
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There's a tent-shaped rock,
277
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there's a disappearing creek.
278
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Oh, right there.
279
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[Narrator] Three peaks,
280
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a creek,
281
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and a tent-shaped rock...
282
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landmarks
that could be anywhere.
283
00:10:54,794 --> 00:10:55,996
Look at this right here.
284
00:10:55,996 --> 00:10:57,867
This guy's done it 10 times.
285
00:10:57,867 --> 00:11:00,973
"1947, Lost mine
hunted 25 years...
286
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Painter soon will try again."
287
00:11:02,943 --> 00:11:04,681
Who's this painter?
288
00:11:06,851 --> 00:11:08,889
"Cyril Walters,
a sign painter."
289
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He had a copy
of the Jackson letter.
290
00:11:11,193 --> 00:11:13,431
He must have known something
that others didn't,
291
00:11:13,431 --> 00:11:14,366
because he's very specific.
292
00:11:14,366 --> 00:11:16,303
In the letter he had,
293
00:11:16,303 --> 00:11:19,009
it's giving him directions
exactly where to go.
294
00:11:19,009 --> 00:11:19,978
So it'd have to be
a different letter?
295
00:11:19,978 --> 00:11:21,080
Different version.
296
00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,783
I mean, it says here
297
00:11:22,783 --> 00:11:24,219
"a copy of that letter
298
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came into Cyril Walters' hands
in 1922."
299
00:11:26,858 --> 00:11:29,396
What?
300
00:11:29,396 --> 00:11:30,298
Where did Cyril
get that letter from?
301
00:11:30,298 --> 00:11:31,735
That's the one I want.
302
00:11:31,735 --> 00:11:33,705
[Adam] This is a big deal.
303
00:11:33,705 --> 00:11:37,312
This could be an original copy
of the Jackson letter.
304
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[Narrator]
The article reveals
305
00:11:39,082 --> 00:11:42,790
that Cyril Walters
didn't prospect alone.
306
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[Adam] So four of them.
307
00:11:44,192 --> 00:11:45,763
"Vancouver sign painters,
308
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all are treasure hunters."
309
00:11:46,665 --> 00:11:48,334
Key word "all."
310
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"All are treasure hunters
311
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inspired by Cyril Walters."
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Bam!
313
00:11:52,877 --> 00:11:54,012
The article claims
314
00:11:54,012 --> 00:11:55,683
that this man and his friends
315
00:11:55,683 --> 00:11:58,254
have an actual original copy
of the Jackson letter.
316
00:11:58,254 --> 00:11:59,957
Now we can get these guys,
317
00:11:59,957 --> 00:12:01,193
we can find their relatives.
318
00:12:01,193 --> 00:12:02,395
Like, somebody's
gotta have something.
319
00:12:02,395 --> 00:12:04,433
To see the real thing...
320
00:12:04,433 --> 00:12:05,969
[sighs]
321
00:12:05,969 --> 00:12:06,938
that would be phenomenal.
322
00:12:06,938 --> 00:12:08,809
Let's go do this, man.
323
00:12:08,809 --> 00:12:10,879
Whoo... hoo, hoo!
324
00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:12,315
Gettin' excited, man!
325
00:12:12,315 --> 00:12:14,252
[Adam]
We need to find this letter.
326
00:12:14,252 --> 00:12:16,090
This piece of the puzzle
327
00:12:16,090 --> 00:12:17,492
could blow the whole legend
wide open.
328
00:12:23,371 --> 00:12:25,843
So, what's the next step?
329
00:12:25,843 --> 00:12:27,780
[Narrator] In their search
for Slumach's lost gold,
330
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Adam and Kru examine clues
331
00:12:30,218 --> 00:12:33,525
left by an early 1900s
prospector.
332
00:12:33,525 --> 00:12:35,094
If you're going to find
Slumach's gold,
333
00:12:35,094 --> 00:12:36,096
you start with
the Jackson Letter.
334
00:12:36,096 --> 00:12:38,267
[Narrator] Walter Jackson
335
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penned a deathbed letter
to a friend
336
00:12:40,639 --> 00:12:44,246
detailing directions
to the gold's secret location,
337
00:12:44,246 --> 00:12:46,183
but like a game
of broken telephone,
338
00:12:46,183 --> 00:12:47,887
details in the letter changed
339
00:12:47,887 --> 00:12:50,191
and disappeared over time.
340
00:12:50,191 --> 00:12:52,596
99% of us
have seen the fake one.
341
00:12:52,596 --> 00:12:53,932
At the end of the day,
to see the original?
342
00:12:53,932 --> 00:12:54,667
That's what we need.
343
00:12:57,305 --> 00:12:59,777
[Narrator] A new lead
in a 1940s newspaper article
344
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refers to a Vancouver man
345
00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,184
and his friends
346
00:13:03,184 --> 00:13:05,088
in possession
of an early copy
347
00:13:05,088 --> 00:13:07,125
of the Jackson Letter.
348
00:13:07,125 --> 00:13:09,730
It's the best
and clearest link to date
349
00:13:09,730 --> 00:13:11,400
back to Slumach
350
00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,170
and his legendary lost gold.
351
00:13:13,170 --> 00:13:15,642
[engine rumbling]
352
00:13:15,642 --> 00:13:16,544
[Adam] I did some digging,
did some research.
353
00:13:18,347 --> 00:13:20,752
Cyril Walters
died some time ago,
354
00:13:20,752 --> 00:13:24,560
and I cannot find
any of his living relatives.
355
00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,765
[Narrator] Leaving Adam
with the only other name
356
00:13:26,765 --> 00:13:29,069
listed in the article.
357
00:13:29,069 --> 00:13:31,039
[Adam] Arthur Dick Carter.
358
00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:33,477
His obituary
mentions grandchildren.
359
00:13:33,477 --> 00:13:35,148
I'm looking for an Ian Carter.
360
00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:36,618
It's a long shot.
361
00:13:39,791 --> 00:13:42,195
The problem is
there's a lot of Ian Carters.
362
00:13:42,195 --> 00:13:44,166
How do you know
which is the right one,
363
00:13:44,166 --> 00:13:46,336
except by calling
every single Ian Carter
364
00:13:46,336 --> 00:13:47,405
I can find.
365
00:13:47,405 --> 00:13:49,009
[call ringing]
366
00:13:49,009 --> 00:13:50,679
[man] Hello?
367
00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,017
Hey, I'm looking
for Ian Carter?
368
00:13:53,017 --> 00:13:54,119
-I heard you--
-What?
369
00:13:54,119 --> 00:13:55,823
I'm looking for Ian Carter
370
00:13:55,823 --> 00:13:57,760
that's got a copy
of the Jackson Letter.
371
00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:58,862
I think you might have
the wrong number.
372
00:13:58,862 --> 00:14:00,097
Okay.
373
00:14:00,097 --> 00:14:02,035
[call ringing]
374
00:14:02,035 --> 00:14:03,471
[woman] Yeah?
375
00:14:03,471 --> 00:14:05,408
Hey, is Ian Carter there?
376
00:14:05,408 --> 00:14:06,945
I'm looking for
any living relative
377
00:14:06,945 --> 00:14:07,980
of Dick Carter.
378
00:14:07,980 --> 00:14:09,449
Sorry, wrong number.
379
00:14:09,449 --> 00:14:11,453
[man
it's wrong number.
380
00:14:11,453 --> 00:14:13,157
[man
Wrong number, buddy, sorry.
381
00:14:13,157 --> 00:14:14,326
[call ringing]
382
00:14:14,326 --> 00:14:17,465
[static crackling]
383
00:14:20,171 --> 00:14:22,008
[automated voice] Your call
cannot be completed as dialed.
384
00:14:22,008 --> 00:14:24,079
[call ringing]
385
00:14:24,079 --> 00:14:25,448
Hello?
386
00:14:25,448 --> 00:14:26,450
-Is this Ian?
-Yeah.
387
00:14:26,450 --> 00:14:27,218
This is Ian Carter?
388
00:14:27,218 --> 00:14:28,588
Yeah.
389
00:14:28,588 --> 00:14:31,193
Hey, Ian, it's Adam Palmer.
390
00:14:31,193 --> 00:14:33,397
I'm trying to get
some information
391
00:14:33,397 --> 00:14:35,802
regarding your grandfather,
392
00:14:35,802 --> 00:14:38,274
and supposedly he was connected
to Cyril Walters.
393
00:14:38,274 --> 00:14:40,344
He was in possession
of a Jackson letter.
394
00:14:40,344 --> 00:14:41,446
He showed us that letter
395
00:14:41,446 --> 00:14:42,983
when I was like five or six.
396
00:14:42,983 --> 00:14:45,321
And you have the letter?
397
00:14:45,321 --> 00:14:45,956
Yeah.
398
00:14:48,260 --> 00:14:49,229
This is the missing
piece of the puzzle
399
00:14:49,229 --> 00:14:50,632
that we're looking for.
400
00:14:50,632 --> 00:14:53,370
And you would be okay
to get together?
401
00:14:53,370 --> 00:14:55,909
Yeah, yeah, we could
set something up for sure.
402
00:14:55,909 --> 00:14:58,748
I mean, it doesn't usually
always work out this way.
403
00:14:58,748 --> 00:14:59,717
[chuckles]
Actually, it never does.
404
00:15:04,192 --> 00:15:06,129
[Narrator]
Back in Vancouver,
405
00:15:06,129 --> 00:15:08,300
Taylor begins her search
for the truth
406
00:15:08,300 --> 00:15:11,006
behind her ancestor Slumach,
407
00:15:11,006 --> 00:15:12,342
his life, and claims of gold.
408
00:15:14,446 --> 00:15:15,749
[Taylor] It's hard to tell
409
00:15:15,749 --> 00:15:16,985
what is fact and what is fiction
410
00:15:16,985 --> 00:15:17,519
in the Slumach story.
411
00:15:19,456 --> 00:15:21,360
I'm starting to look into
412
00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:22,563
all the newspaper articles
about him.
413
00:15:26,370 --> 00:15:27,506
"At the Pitt River on Monday,
414
00:15:27,506 --> 00:15:29,744
an old Indian named Slumach
415
00:15:29,744 --> 00:15:31,213
picked up a gun
and shot Louis Bee,
416
00:15:31,213 --> 00:15:32,315
a half-breed,
417
00:15:32,315 --> 00:15:34,419
through the chest."
418
00:15:34,419 --> 00:15:35,756
[Taylor] We know Slumach
was a real person.
419
00:15:35,756 --> 00:15:37,893
We know in 1891
420
00:15:37,893 --> 00:15:40,164
he was hung
for shooting another man.
421
00:15:40,164 --> 00:15:42,670
[Narrator]
The legend of Slumach
422
00:15:42,670 --> 00:15:45,943
tells of a brash young man
from Pitt Lake
423
00:15:45,943 --> 00:15:48,982
arriving in the city
of New Westminster every year
424
00:15:48,982 --> 00:15:53,290
loaded with gold,
and flaunting his wealth.
425
00:15:53,290 --> 00:15:55,361
When he kills
to protect his mine,
426
00:15:55,361 --> 00:15:57,231
he is hanged,
427
00:15:57,231 --> 00:15:58,802
and from the gallows,
428
00:15:58,802 --> 00:16:02,876
curses anyone seeking his gold.
429
00:16:02,876 --> 00:16:03,979
[♪♪♪♪♪]
430
00:16:03,979 --> 00:16:06,216
[Don] Slumach.
431
00:16:06,216 --> 00:16:07,385
It'd be interesting to know
actually who took that photo.
432
00:16:07,385 --> 00:16:08,955
Yeah.
433
00:16:08,955 --> 00:16:10,592
[Taylor] Don is my father.
434
00:16:10,592 --> 00:16:12,529
In the team,
he is like our elder...
435
00:16:12,529 --> 00:16:14,332
-Drum roll.
-Miss.
436
00:16:14,332 --> 00:16:17,038
Ooh!
437
00:16:17,038 --> 00:16:18,140
[Taylor] ...but he doesn't
like to be referred to
438
00:16:18,140 --> 00:16:19,376
as an elder. [laughs]
439
00:16:19,376 --> 00:16:20,746
Do you wanna stand there
440
00:16:20,746 --> 00:16:21,313
with an apple on your head
for me?
441
00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:22,382
No, I'll wait a bit.
442
00:16:22,382 --> 00:16:23,652
We always look up to him.
443
00:16:23,652 --> 00:16:25,388
We always go to him
444
00:16:25,388 --> 00:16:26,323
for just that
little bit of wisdom
445
00:16:26,323 --> 00:16:26,691
that he can pass on.
446
00:16:28,762 --> 00:16:29,997
Nice!
447
00:16:32,703 --> 00:16:33,470
[Taylor reads] "Indian Killer
once Terror of Pitt Lake."
448
00:16:33,470 --> 00:16:34,974
[Don chuckles] Yeah.
449
00:16:34,974 --> 00:16:36,611
Why do they have to say
"Indian Killer?"
450
00:16:36,611 --> 00:16:38,682
Could have just said
"killer," right?
451
00:16:38,682 --> 00:16:40,217
Yeah, gets people to read the--
like, read the article.
452
00:16:40,217 --> 00:16:40,752
Like, "Ooh,
what is this about?"
453
00:16:40,752 --> 00:16:44,225
So it looks like the media,
454
00:16:44,225 --> 00:16:46,063
they're painting Slumach
like the...
455
00:16:46,063 --> 00:16:47,031
this terrible villain.
456
00:16:47,031 --> 00:16:49,169
Yeah.
457
00:16:49,169 --> 00:16:51,239
Of course they were,
at that time, so oppressed.
458
00:16:51,239 --> 00:16:52,843
Their right of governance
459
00:16:52,843 --> 00:16:54,580
to traditional justice was gone.
460
00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:57,018
[Taylor]
From my research so far,
461
00:16:57,018 --> 00:16:59,824
I know some of the legend
is a total invention.
462
00:16:59,824 --> 00:17:02,428
Lots of truths and mistruths
463
00:17:02,428 --> 00:17:04,934
and just straight-out lies
in the entire story.
464
00:17:04,934 --> 00:17:06,303
Everything was, like,
embellished,
465
00:17:06,303 --> 00:17:07,071
but we need to know this stuff.
466
00:17:07,071 --> 00:17:08,641
-Yes.
467
00:17:08,641 --> 00:17:10,812
[Taylor]
I absolutely want the truth.
468
00:17:10,812 --> 00:17:12,583
I want to find out
about the man himself,
469
00:17:12,583 --> 00:17:15,354
to piece together
who Slumach was,
470
00:17:15,354 --> 00:17:17,526
and to find the real story.
471
00:17:20,766 --> 00:17:21,834
[Narrator] On the trail
of the Jackson letter...
472
00:17:21,834 --> 00:17:23,404
Ian?
473
00:17:23,404 --> 00:17:24,774
-How are you?
-Good. Adam?
474
00:17:24,774 --> 00:17:26,176
-Yeah.
-Nice to meet you.
475
00:17:26,176 --> 00:17:27,278
-Kru.
-Kru, nice to meet you.
476
00:17:27,278 --> 00:17:28,848
Nice to meet you also.
477
00:17:28,848 --> 00:17:30,017
[Narrator] ...Adam and Kru
have tracked down
478
00:17:30,017 --> 00:17:31,521
the grandson
of a Pitt Lake gold hunter...
479
00:17:31,521 --> 00:17:33,190
Come on in.
480
00:17:33,190 --> 00:17:34,760
[Narrator] ...and possibly
481
00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:38,167
Walter Jackson's
directions to the gold.
482
00:17:38,167 --> 00:17:39,904
[Ian] I have some great stuff
to show you.
483
00:17:39,904 --> 00:17:41,908
Gonna have to move
a little bit of things.
484
00:17:41,908 --> 00:17:45,281
[Adam] He has all this stuff
saved in this box,
485
00:17:45,281 --> 00:17:46,283
and now we get to open it up
486
00:17:46,283 --> 00:17:48,087
and actually see.
487
00:17:48,087 --> 00:17:52,395
This has been in my family
for years.
488
00:17:52,395 --> 00:17:54,533
Grandpa's box.
489
00:17:54,533 --> 00:17:55,134
[lid creaks open]
490
00:18:00,712 --> 00:18:03,818
This box originally
belonged to my grandparents.
491
00:18:03,818 --> 00:18:05,689
[Narrator] In their search
for Slumach's lost gold,
492
00:18:05,689 --> 00:18:08,728
Adam and Kru have tracked down
Ian Carter,
493
00:18:08,728 --> 00:18:10,398
grandson
of a Pitt Lake gold hunter.
494
00:18:10,398 --> 00:18:12,468
[Ian] As kids,
495
00:18:12,468 --> 00:18:13,972
we were never allowed
to look at this stuff.
496
00:18:13,972 --> 00:18:15,709
When my grandparents
passed away,
497
00:18:15,709 --> 00:18:16,811
my dad got this box,
498
00:18:16,811 --> 00:18:19,449
and then when he passed away,
499
00:18:19,449 --> 00:18:20,351
it came to me.
500
00:18:20,351 --> 00:18:20,986
[lid creaks open]
501
00:18:22,790 --> 00:18:25,361
We've got some original photos.
502
00:18:25,361 --> 00:18:28,434
These are from the 1940s.
503
00:18:28,434 --> 00:18:29,570
The minute he pulled out
those photos,
504
00:18:29,570 --> 00:18:31,073
I knew for real
505
00:18:31,073 --> 00:18:32,976
that his grandfather
was in that area.
506
00:18:32,976 --> 00:18:34,980
His grandfather wasn't just
claiming to go looking,
507
00:18:34,980 --> 00:18:36,016
he actually was looking
for Slumach's gold.
508
00:18:37,218 --> 00:18:40,057
No way.
509
00:18:40,057 --> 00:18:42,796
Look at what he's holding
in his hand here, man.
510
00:18:42,796 --> 00:18:44,600
Look at the size
of those frickin' nuggets.
511
00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:46,671
That is just phenomenal.
512
00:18:46,671 --> 00:18:48,073
That's gold.
513
00:18:48,073 --> 00:18:49,175
It's amazing.
514
00:18:49,175 --> 00:18:50,912
That's like the most gold
515
00:18:50,912 --> 00:18:52,583
I've ever seen
pulled out of that area,
516
00:18:52,583 --> 00:18:54,486
let alone pulled out of
any area out here.
517
00:18:54,486 --> 00:18:56,056
Deep pans of gold--
518
00:18:56,056 --> 00:18:57,358
He definitely did find gold
at one time.
519
00:18:57,358 --> 00:18:58,193
Look at the size
of the nuggets.
520
00:18:58,193 --> 00:19:00,164
[Ian] Those are huge, yeah.
521
00:19:00,164 --> 00:19:02,201
[Narrator] The photo evidence
is compelling,
522
00:19:02,201 --> 00:19:04,439
and difficult to deny.
523
00:19:04,439 --> 00:19:06,677
You can see the corner edges,
524
00:19:06,677 --> 00:19:08,046
it looks like it's been
moulded together.
525
00:19:08,046 --> 00:19:09,550
He's out in the middle
of the bush.
526
00:19:09,550 --> 00:19:12,054
It wasn't like
he processed anything.
527
00:19:12,054 --> 00:19:13,123
It doesn't get realer
than that.
528
00:19:13,123 --> 00:19:14,425
You didn't have Photoshop
back then.
529
00:19:14,425 --> 00:19:15,227
That's gold.
530
00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,269
[Narrator]
Walnut-sized nuggets
531
00:19:19,269 --> 00:19:21,339
support the idea
532
00:19:21,339 --> 00:19:23,778
that Cyril's party was working
with detailed directions
533
00:19:23,778 --> 00:19:27,653
to find the lost gold,
534
00:19:27,653 --> 00:19:30,992
but what other details
do these photos reveal?
535
00:19:30,992 --> 00:19:33,397
[Adam] You have him
on a float plane here,
536
00:19:33,397 --> 00:19:34,867
so obviously
he's landing somewhere
537
00:19:34,867 --> 00:19:36,036
where it's float plane
accessible.
538
00:19:36,036 --> 00:19:37,338
So from that lake,
539
00:19:37,338 --> 00:19:40,344
they crossed a glacier,
540
00:19:40,344 --> 00:19:43,250
and it looks like they are stuck
541
00:19:43,250 --> 00:19:44,352
at the end of a glacier here
542
00:19:44,352 --> 00:19:46,056
with the ice fall,
543
00:19:46,056 --> 00:19:48,995
and then it looks like
they turned around.
544
00:19:48,995 --> 00:19:51,166
So I think this is
what you guys came for.
545
00:19:53,036 --> 00:19:55,074
This is the original
Jackson Letter
546
00:19:55,074 --> 00:19:56,544
that my grandpa...
547
00:19:56,544 --> 00:19:58,413
-Whew.
-...has kept all these years.
548
00:20:01,486 --> 00:20:03,190
It looks like
it's about to fall apart.
549
00:20:03,190 --> 00:20:05,695
Yeah, the last page
is a little bit fragile.
550
00:20:05,695 --> 00:20:07,633
[Adam] This is the letter
551
00:20:07,633 --> 00:20:08,835
that people
have been looking for,
552
00:20:08,835 --> 00:20:11,306
have been talking about,
553
00:20:11,306 --> 00:20:12,375
and he pulls it out of this box.
554
00:20:13,711 --> 00:20:15,916
Let's see here.
555
00:20:15,916 --> 00:20:19,289
Wow, you really
got to piece this together.
556
00:20:19,289 --> 00:20:20,725
This is the first time
I've ever even seen this.
557
00:20:20,725 --> 00:20:22,228
Look at this.
558
00:20:22,228 --> 00:20:23,297
It's always the last page.
559
00:20:23,297 --> 00:20:25,000
Last page.
560
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,504
[Kru] That last page
of the letter
561
00:20:26,504 --> 00:20:27,773
was the only piece
562
00:20:27,773 --> 00:20:29,442
that was almost disintegrating.
563
00:20:29,442 --> 00:20:31,146
The reason why
564
00:20:31,146 --> 00:20:33,050
is it had the most important
part of it.
565
00:20:33,050 --> 00:20:35,555
"From the very head
of Pitt Lake,
566
00:20:35,555 --> 00:20:38,761
not more than 20 miles northwest
567
00:20:38,761 --> 00:20:40,231
to the hidden treasure."
568
00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,247
"More than 20 miles
in the northwest direction
569
00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:50,117
to the hidden treasure."
570
00:20:50,117 --> 00:20:52,956
[laughs]
571
00:20:52,956 --> 00:20:55,762
[Kru] To actually see this
is phenomenal.
572
00:20:55,762 --> 00:20:56,530
This letter
is way more detailed
573
00:20:56,530 --> 00:20:57,966
than the one I've grown up with.
574
00:20:57,966 --> 00:20:59,837
It actually states distance
and measurements
575
00:20:59,837 --> 00:21:02,174
from Pitt Lake
576
00:21:02,174 --> 00:21:03,678
to where you're going
to locate this lost gold mine.
577
00:21:03,678 --> 00:21:05,147
The letter is saying
578
00:21:05,147 --> 00:21:07,118
20 miles northwest
of Pitt Lake.
579
00:21:07,118 --> 00:21:10,124
We have pictures of a trip
that show glacier travel...
580
00:21:10,124 --> 00:21:12,461
so, you know,
you put those two together,
581
00:21:12,461 --> 00:21:14,432
I know exactly where this is.
582
00:21:14,432 --> 00:21:17,506
[Narrator] 20 miles northwest of
the head of Pitt Lake
583
00:21:17,506 --> 00:21:20,044
is a remote,
glaciated mountain range
584
00:21:20,044 --> 00:21:23,718
known as the Mamquam Icefield.
585
00:21:23,718 --> 00:21:24,720
[Adam] That's where
we're going to go.
586
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,989
You're going to be standing
587
00:21:25,989 --> 00:21:28,093
right where these guys are,
588
00:21:28,093 --> 00:21:30,130
and then we're going
to have to go right there.
589
00:21:30,130 --> 00:21:32,401
[Kru] It's like a whole
'nother world.
590
00:21:32,401 --> 00:21:34,540
Ian Carter's grandfather
was using this letter
591
00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:36,811
on this expedition
592
00:21:36,811 --> 00:21:39,115
that these photos
are taken from.
593
00:21:39,115 --> 00:21:41,119
He was at the head wall
of the glacier,
594
00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,689
and that's what
turned him around.
595
00:21:42,689 --> 00:21:44,025
Well, that's not
going to turn us around.
596
00:21:44,025 --> 00:21:46,931
That's going to be me and you.
597
00:21:46,931 --> 00:21:49,068
-[laughs]
-I'm going to be this guy here,
598
00:21:49,068 --> 00:21:50,605
you're going to be that guy.
-I'll be that guy.
599
00:21:50,605 --> 00:21:51,807
As long as we both
come back safe.
600
00:21:54,479 --> 00:21:55,281
[♪♪♪♪♪]
601
00:22:02,929 --> 00:22:04,933
[Adam] We get ourselves
high up on this glacier,
602
00:22:04,933 --> 00:22:07,906
we can see exactly
where those three peaks line up,
603
00:22:07,906 --> 00:22:09,309
but you gotta be careful
going through here, though.
604
00:22:11,981 --> 00:22:13,685
[Narrator] But to get there,
605
00:22:13,685 --> 00:22:16,557
Kru and Adam's
first expedition together
606
00:22:16,557 --> 00:22:18,761
will force them
across the icefield.
607
00:22:21,299 --> 00:22:23,738
It's a trek that even Adam
has never made,
608
00:22:23,738 --> 00:22:26,376
and one that Kru
has never imagined.
609
00:22:29,182 --> 00:22:29,783
[Kru] I mean, I really want
to slide down this hill, though.
610
00:22:29,783 --> 00:22:31,854
[Adam] No.
611
00:22:31,854 --> 00:22:33,958
I don't recommend any sliding
on a glacier.
612
00:22:33,958 --> 00:22:36,897
[Kru] It's a weird mix
of bravery, guts,
613
00:22:36,897 --> 00:22:37,799
and a little bit of stupidity.
614
00:22:39,903 --> 00:22:41,473
We probably shouldn't be there.
615
00:22:41,473 --> 00:22:44,813
Nature doesn't care.
616
00:22:44,813 --> 00:22:47,652
But when there's gold up there,
I don't care,
617
00:22:47,652 --> 00:22:49,857
and at the end of the day,
618
00:22:49,857 --> 00:22:50,525
ain't nothin' gonna stop me
from gettin' that gold,
619
00:22:50,525 --> 00:22:51,961
period.
620
00:22:54,633 --> 00:22:56,336
Watch out for that crack.
621
00:22:56,336 --> 00:22:58,040
[Adam] Kru's gold fever
622
00:22:58,040 --> 00:22:59,543
could be a little bit
of a concern,
623
00:22:59,543 --> 00:23:00,845
because gold fever will hit you
and distract you.
624
00:23:02,749 --> 00:23:07,191
[Kru chortling]
625
00:23:07,191 --> 00:23:10,264
All we gotta do
is go through here.
626
00:23:10,264 --> 00:23:12,168
Beautiful.
627
00:23:12,168 --> 00:23:13,504
Perfect.
628
00:23:13,504 --> 00:23:16,544
Black ice.
629
00:23:16,544 --> 00:23:18,346
[Kru] Being on the glacier
for the first time,
630
00:23:18,346 --> 00:23:19,282
that's what separates
the weak from the strong.
631
00:23:21,887 --> 00:23:23,290
[Adam] Watch out for the holes.
632
00:23:23,290 --> 00:23:24,092
[♪♪♪♪♪]
633
00:23:30,638 --> 00:23:31,941
[Narrator]
75 kilometres south,
634
00:23:31,941 --> 00:23:35,314
just east of Vancouver...
635
00:23:35,314 --> 00:23:37,819
[Fred] Let me see
what we have here. Oh, yeah.
636
00:23:37,819 --> 00:23:40,090
I see you've done
a little bit of research.
637
00:23:40,090 --> 00:23:42,696
[Narrator] Taylor's determined
to find out who Slumach was
638
00:23:42,696 --> 00:23:45,234
behind the headlines,
639
00:23:45,234 --> 00:23:48,508
so she's turned to Fred Braches,
a local historian
640
00:23:48,508 --> 00:23:52,281
and author of "Searching
for Pitt Lake Gold."
641
00:23:52,281 --> 00:23:53,183
These things
are all transcribed, eh?
642
00:23:53,183 --> 00:23:54,887
Yep.
643
00:23:54,887 --> 00:23:55,922
So all these books
you did yourself?
644
00:23:55,922 --> 00:23:58,160
Yeah, yeah.
645
00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,166
I'm interested about history,
the true history.
646
00:24:01,166 --> 00:24:04,005
One of the things
you have to take care of
647
00:24:04,005 --> 00:24:06,076
that you don't believe
the newspapers at the time.
648
00:24:06,076 --> 00:24:08,113
Journalists
they didn't go there,
649
00:24:08,113 --> 00:24:09,550
they didn't talk to the people.
-Mm-hmm.
650
00:24:09,550 --> 00:24:10,919
They heard rumours,
651
00:24:10,919 --> 00:24:13,925
and that's all what there was.
652
00:24:13,925 --> 00:24:17,031
Do not trust anything
which is published.
653
00:24:17,031 --> 00:24:18,935
There is the real Slumach,
654
00:24:18,935 --> 00:24:20,370
and there is
the fantasy Slumach,
655
00:24:20,370 --> 00:24:24,546
and this is created
by the newspapers.
656
00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:27,118
Let me read you
a couple of headings here.
657
00:24:27,118 --> 00:24:29,757
"Louis Bee, a half breed,
658
00:24:29,757 --> 00:24:31,694
is deliberately shot and killed
659
00:24:31,694 --> 00:24:33,631
by an insane Indian
named Slumach
660
00:24:33,631 --> 00:24:36,336
at Lillooet Slough."
661
00:24:36,336 --> 00:24:39,108
[Narrator] The reports say
after the cold-blooded murder,
662
00:24:39,108 --> 00:24:41,847
Slumach was sentenced to die,
663
00:24:41,847 --> 00:24:45,454
and on January 16, 1891,
664
00:24:45,454 --> 00:24:48,561
he was hanged
for the killing of Louis Bee.
665
00:24:48,561 --> 00:24:50,832
"Deliberate murder
by an Indian at Pitt River."
666
00:24:50,832 --> 00:24:52,034
Huh?
667
00:24:52,034 --> 00:24:54,005
[Taylor] Back then,
668
00:24:54,005 --> 00:24:56,476
First Nations people
were portrayed as savages.
669
00:24:56,476 --> 00:24:58,748
Indigenous people
have been stereotyped
670
00:24:58,748 --> 00:25:00,017
throughout history.
671
00:25:00,017 --> 00:25:02,823
Slumach has been depicted
672
00:25:02,823 --> 00:25:03,658
as this sort of
cartoon character.
673
00:25:05,895 --> 00:25:06,864
[Narrator] The Slumach legend
674
00:25:06,864 --> 00:25:09,035
plays on plenty of cliches--
675
00:25:09,035 --> 00:25:10,772
a bloodthirsty warrior,
676
00:25:10,772 --> 00:25:11,674
magical powers,
677
00:25:11,674 --> 00:25:13,276
and a curse.
678
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,986
When you read
those newspaper articles,
679
00:25:17,986 --> 00:25:21,025
you will find one thing
in the early days.
680
00:25:21,025 --> 00:25:23,463
There is no mention of gold
at all.
681
00:25:23,463 --> 00:25:26,837
Gold is born much later.
682
00:25:26,837 --> 00:25:29,710
I could not find
any newspaper references
683
00:25:29,710 --> 00:25:32,582
mentioning his name
specifically with the gold
684
00:25:32,582 --> 00:25:34,753
until 1914.
685
00:25:34,753 --> 00:25:36,322
[Narrator] The article
686
00:25:36,322 --> 00:25:38,493
published
in the Stevens Point Journal
687
00:25:38,493 --> 00:25:42,134
appeared over two decades
after Slumach was hanged.
688
00:25:42,134 --> 00:25:45,040
Gold comes later in the story.
689
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,244
[Taylor] He argued
with the man he shot,
690
00:25:47,244 --> 00:25:48,446
but there was no mention
that it was over gold.
691
00:25:50,150 --> 00:25:52,121
If this legend is a lie,
692
00:25:52,121 --> 00:25:53,190
and there's no actually gold
out there,
693
00:25:53,190 --> 00:25:53,691
like, what are we doing?
694
00:26:01,206 --> 00:26:03,778
[Narrator]
On the Mamquam Icefield,
695
00:26:03,778 --> 00:26:06,517
high above Pitt Lake...
696
00:26:06,517 --> 00:26:07,686
[Adam] You gotta be careful
going through here.
697
00:26:07,686 --> 00:26:09,523
[Kru] Roger dodger.
698
00:26:09,523 --> 00:26:12,394
[Narrator] ...Adam and Kru
are crossing the glacier
699
00:26:12,394 --> 00:26:15,100
in search of landmarks
from the Jackson letter,
700
00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:18,808
clues that could lead
to his stashed gold,
701
00:26:18,808 --> 00:26:20,879
and to its source,
702
00:26:20,879 --> 00:26:23,250
Slumach's mine.
703
00:26:23,250 --> 00:26:24,653
[Adam] We're looking for
Walter Jackson's three peaks
704
00:26:24,653 --> 00:26:25,822
and his tent-shaped rock,
705
00:26:25,822 --> 00:26:27,324
but this won't be easy,
706
00:26:27,324 --> 00:26:29,529
and we have to cross
this glacier first.
707
00:26:29,529 --> 00:26:31,399
The most difficult part
of the journey
708
00:26:31,399 --> 00:26:34,338
is actually crossing
the headwall of the glacier.
709
00:26:34,338 --> 00:26:36,877
They consist
of massive ice falls
710
00:26:36,877 --> 00:26:38,581
that drop down
a thousand metres
711
00:26:38,581 --> 00:26:39,482
to the valley floor.
712
00:26:47,732 --> 00:26:49,068
[Kru] Sketchy!
713
00:26:49,068 --> 00:26:49,503
You can't quit.
714
00:26:52,474 --> 00:26:55,480
I just kept the motivation
of seeing those peaks in my mind
715
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:57,284
that, "Okay, at least
we're onto something,
716
00:26:57,284 --> 00:26:57,686
and we're going the right way."
717
00:27:00,324 --> 00:27:02,027
[Adam] Kru's never been
on a glacier before.
718
00:27:02,027 --> 00:27:04,131
He's never crossed
a crevasse field.
719
00:27:04,131 --> 00:27:04,600
I think he's
out of his element.
720
00:27:06,704 --> 00:27:07,906
You're going to
have to climb up that ice.
721
00:27:07,906 --> 00:27:09,910
[Kru] Seriously?
722
00:27:09,910 --> 00:27:12,949
[Adam] Yeah.
It's our only way up.
723
00:27:12,949 --> 00:27:14,820
-Coming down here?
-All right.
724
00:27:18,026 --> 00:27:19,128
[Kru] We're doing things
I've never done before.
725
00:27:22,869 --> 00:27:24,806
[Kru] Is it doable?
726
00:27:24,806 --> 00:27:25,508
[Adam] Gonna find out.
727
00:27:27,712 --> 00:27:29,048
[Narrator] Curse or no curse,
728
00:27:29,048 --> 00:27:31,787
it's clear
the Mamquam has the ability
729
00:27:31,787 --> 00:27:35,027
to swallow the unprepared.
730
00:27:35,027 --> 00:27:36,997
[Kru] We don't know
731
00:27:36,997 --> 00:27:38,133
exactly how many people
went out there
732
00:27:38,133 --> 00:27:39,201
and didn't come back.
733
00:27:39,201 --> 00:27:41,640
Some say 20, some say 50.
734
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,111
I say if one life
doesn't come back, it matters,
735
00:27:44,111 --> 00:27:44,780
and especially if it's mine.
736
00:27:46,950 --> 00:27:48,219
You can't mess up.
737
00:27:48,219 --> 00:27:50,357
This is real life.
738
00:27:50,357 --> 00:27:51,326
You're going to fall,
and you're going to get hurt,
739
00:27:51,326 --> 00:27:53,063
and ain't nobody gonna help you.
740
00:27:53,063 --> 00:27:53,531
You're out
in the middle of nowhere.
741
00:27:55,802 --> 00:27:57,872
Whoa...
742
00:27:57,872 --> 00:27:59,910
[Adam] Kru thought
he was going into a minefield,
743
00:27:59,910 --> 00:28:00,410
and literally, he kind of was.
744
00:28:01,947 --> 00:28:03,249
Oh...
745
00:28:03,249 --> 00:28:04,853
Actually, wait a minute.
746
00:28:04,853 --> 00:28:06,523
What is it?
747
00:28:06,523 --> 00:28:09,161
Uh, we got
a huge fracture line.
748
00:28:09,161 --> 00:28:10,765
[ice crumbling]
749
00:28:10,765 --> 00:28:12,201
I can literally
hear this thing moving.
750
00:28:14,573 --> 00:28:16,242
[Narrator]
The milder spring weather
751
00:28:16,242 --> 00:28:19,281
makes accessing
the Mamquam possible,
752
00:28:19,281 --> 00:28:22,021
but it also makes the melting
and shifting glacial ice
753
00:28:22,021 --> 00:28:24,793
much less stable.
754
00:28:24,793 --> 00:28:25,695
[Adam] The fracture line
is, like, right here.
755
00:28:27,632 --> 00:28:28,601
[Kru] Let's talk about it
at the bottom.
756
00:28:37,752 --> 00:28:39,455
[Adam] I think we can
jump over that crevasse
757
00:28:39,455 --> 00:28:41,125
and just get around
this minefield.
758
00:28:41,125 --> 00:28:43,396
[Kru] Oh,
that does not look good.
759
00:28:43,396 --> 00:28:45,535
This is starting
to push those limits.
760
00:28:49,509 --> 00:28:51,847
[Narrator] The detour
will force Adam and Kru
761
00:28:51,847 --> 00:28:54,619
up a sheer wall of ice.
762
00:28:54,619 --> 00:28:56,990
Oh, boy, Adam...
763
00:28:56,990 --> 00:28:58,594
[Narrator]
...testing Kru's abilities
764
00:28:58,594 --> 00:29:00,263
and determination.
765
00:29:14,358 --> 00:29:15,862
Let me know when you're ready.
766
00:29:15,862 --> 00:29:16,362
You're good.
767
00:29:18,366 --> 00:29:19,703
[Kru] You can't quit.
768
00:29:19,703 --> 00:29:20,972
You're already in it.
769
00:29:20,972 --> 00:29:22,341
You have to push through it.
770
00:29:22,341 --> 00:29:24,311
It doesn't matter if it's scary,
771
00:29:24,311 --> 00:29:25,280
it doesn't matter
if it's dangerous.
772
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:27,017
I'm going to jump across.
773
00:29:27,017 --> 00:29:28,186
[groans]
774
00:29:28,186 --> 00:29:29,088
[Adam] You got it.
775
00:29:29,088 --> 00:29:30,992
[grunts]
776
00:29:30,992 --> 00:29:33,697
Whoa.
777
00:29:33,697 --> 00:29:35,902
[Kru] One false step,
one false move,
778
00:29:35,902 --> 00:29:37,104
for me, it's scary.
779
00:29:37,104 --> 00:29:37,739
I don't need to die.
780
00:29:39,643 --> 00:29:41,312
Whoa.
781
00:29:41,312 --> 00:29:42,549
I'm at my limit right now.
782
00:29:44,786 --> 00:29:45,655
Good job, you got it, Kru.
783
00:29:47,525 --> 00:29:48,226
Come on.
784
00:29:51,132 --> 00:29:52,769
[Kru] What am I gonna do,
785
00:29:52,769 --> 00:29:53,971
stay out on the glacier
all night by myself,
786
00:29:53,971 --> 00:29:55,842
or get over this wall?
787
00:29:55,842 --> 00:29:56,977
Nice. Good stick.
788
00:30:03,123 --> 00:30:04,191
You're at the top,
come on, you got it.
789
00:30:04,191 --> 00:30:05,695
Stick it.
790
00:30:08,901 --> 00:30:10,237
[grunts]
791
00:30:12,542 --> 00:30:14,278
Well done.
792
00:30:14,278 --> 00:30:15,882
[Kru groans] We did it.
793
00:30:15,882 --> 00:30:17,652
[breathing hard]
794
00:30:20,257 --> 00:30:22,127
Did you just pull off
your first ice climb
795
00:30:22,127 --> 00:30:24,098
on the glacier?
796
00:30:24,098 --> 00:30:25,935
[chuckling]
797
00:30:25,935 --> 00:30:27,271
-See?
-First of many.
798
00:30:27,271 --> 00:30:28,473
Told ya I'd get you up here.
799
00:30:28,473 --> 00:30:30,043
I know. I trust you.
800
00:30:30,043 --> 00:30:31,613
[breathing hard]
801
00:30:31,613 --> 00:30:33,383
[Adam] I was extremely
proud of Kru.
802
00:30:33,383 --> 00:30:35,453
Now I'm confident
that he can do it,
803
00:30:35,453 --> 00:30:35,588
and he knows himself
he can do it.
804
00:30:37,124 --> 00:30:38,761
[Narrator] The reward,
805
00:30:38,761 --> 00:30:41,700
a clear view
of their target destination...
806
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:43,336
[Adam] See that?
807
00:30:43,336 --> 00:30:44,472
Those three peaks right there.
808
00:30:44,472 --> 00:30:46,643
[Narrator] ...the three peaks
809
00:30:46,643 --> 00:30:50,083
described
in Walter Jackson's letter.
810
00:30:50,083 --> 00:30:51,954
If there's any sort of
gold mine or mineralization,
811
00:30:51,954 --> 00:30:53,858
it's going to be it right there.
812
00:30:53,858 --> 00:30:54,960
How the hell are we gonna
get over to those peaks?
813
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,630
We follow the ice.
814
00:30:56,630 --> 00:30:57,866
We don't want to drop down
into that valley.
815
00:30:57,866 --> 00:30:58,433
That valley's a nightmare.
816
00:31:00,170 --> 00:31:01,507
Let's get off this glacier.
817
00:31:01,507 --> 00:31:04,813
[Narrator]
The terrain ahead is solid.
818
00:31:04,813 --> 00:31:06,349
[Adam] That's the way.
Go straight across.
819
00:31:06,349 --> 00:31:08,219
[Narrator]
But they will need to find
820
00:31:08,219 --> 00:31:10,591
the Jackson Letter's
next clue...
821
00:31:10,591 --> 00:31:12,461
-[Adam] Smooth sailing.
-[Kru laughs]
822
00:31:12,461 --> 00:31:14,031
[Narrator]
...a tent-shaped rock
823
00:31:14,031 --> 00:31:16,737
where Jackson stashed his gold,
824
00:31:16,737 --> 00:31:20,811
a landmark on the path
to Slumach's motherlode.
825
00:31:20,811 --> 00:31:21,847
[Kru groans wearily]
826
00:31:21,847 --> 00:31:22,782
[Adam] We got it.
827
00:31:29,863 --> 00:31:30,865
[Narrator]
Two and a half kilometres
828
00:31:30,865 --> 00:31:32,000
above sea level...
829
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:32,869
[Kru sighs]
830
00:31:32,869 --> 00:31:34,271
Whoo-hoo!
831
00:31:34,271 --> 00:31:36,309
Watch out, Adam!
832
00:31:36,309 --> 00:31:41,185
[Kru laughing]
833
00:31:41,185 --> 00:31:42,421
[Adam] You almost took me out.
834
00:31:42,421 --> 00:31:44,659
[laughing]
835
00:31:44,659 --> 00:31:46,262
[Narrator] ...Kru and Adam
have successfully made it
836
00:31:46,262 --> 00:31:48,266
off the glacier,
837
00:31:48,266 --> 00:31:50,504
toward a mountain range
838
00:31:50,504 --> 00:31:53,243
that matches the description
in Walter Jackson's letter...
839
00:31:53,243 --> 00:31:56,482
and possibly the gold.
840
00:31:56,482 --> 00:31:57,819
[Adam] See,
what did I tell ya?
841
00:31:57,819 --> 00:31:59,856
It's worth travelling
across that glacier.
842
00:31:59,856 --> 00:32:00,524
[Kru] Well, as long as
there's gold in here,
843
00:32:00,524 --> 00:32:00,858
it's definitely worth it.
844
00:32:03,564 --> 00:32:04,532
[Kru] I'm thinking, "Damn,
if we made it this far,
845
00:32:04,532 --> 00:32:06,435
we can make it that far,"
846
00:32:06,435 --> 00:32:07,404
and very few people
have done it before us,
847
00:32:07,404 --> 00:32:08,006
so let's do it.
848
00:32:10,310 --> 00:32:11,880
[Narrator]
The unearthed letter
849
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,684
and the old photos
850
00:32:13,684 --> 00:32:16,088
have guided them
to this spot.
851
00:32:17,759 --> 00:32:19,094
There you go.
852
00:32:19,094 --> 00:32:19,796
There's your three peaks.
853
00:32:19,796 --> 00:32:21,833
[laughing]
854
00:32:21,833 --> 00:32:23,537
Oh, my god, I can't believe
we're actually here.
855
00:32:23,537 --> 00:32:24,973
[Adam] Yeah, three peaks.
856
00:32:24,973 --> 00:32:27,545
One, two, three.
857
00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:29,516
Right in the middle,
boom, gold canyon.
858
00:32:29,516 --> 00:32:31,720
You know what's crazy
is then...
859
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,224
tent-shaped rock's
right there.
860
00:32:34,224 --> 00:32:35,962
Wow!
861
00:32:37,765 --> 00:32:39,234
At the bottom of the valley,
862
00:32:39,234 --> 00:32:41,372
we see a tent-shaped rock,
863
00:32:41,372 --> 00:32:43,476
and three peaks
lining up perfectly,
864
00:32:43,476 --> 00:32:44,980
exactly as he described
in the letter.
865
00:32:44,980 --> 00:32:47,050
It actually lines up.
866
00:32:47,050 --> 00:32:48,821
-Three peaks and the tent.
-It looks good, yeah.
867
00:32:48,821 --> 00:32:50,625
[Narrator]
It's the scene laid out
868
00:32:50,625 --> 00:32:51,425
in Jackson's deathbed letter.
869
00:32:53,162 --> 00:32:55,433
Loaded down with too much gold
870
00:32:55,433 --> 00:32:57,538
to pack and haul
out of the mountains,
871
00:32:57,538 --> 00:33:00,210
he stashed
all that he couldn't carry
872
00:33:00,210 --> 00:33:01,613
beneath the three peaks,
873
00:33:01,613 --> 00:33:05,220
under a tent-shaped rock.
874
00:33:05,220 --> 00:33:07,257
[Adam] Get out
your metal detector.
875
00:33:07,257 --> 00:33:09,361
[Kru] Gold fever is one thing.
876
00:33:09,361 --> 00:33:10,631
Packing gold out
is a whole 'nother.
877
00:33:12,467 --> 00:33:13,904
If I'm Walter Jackson,
878
00:33:13,904 --> 00:33:15,273
that's where
you would bury the gold,
879
00:33:15,273 --> 00:33:16,643
so you'd always remember it.
880
00:33:16,643 --> 00:33:18,781
That's what you use
as a landmark.
881
00:33:18,781 --> 00:33:20,851
Either it's going to be
around the perimeter,
882
00:33:20,851 --> 00:33:23,724
or it's going to be
down underneath some rocks.
883
00:33:23,724 --> 00:33:24,659
This is what
I've been waiting for.
884
00:33:24,659 --> 00:33:26,062
Let's get in there.
885
00:33:27,899 --> 00:33:28,801
You can get
to the ground over here.
886
00:33:28,801 --> 00:33:30,538
-Yeah?
887
00:33:30,538 --> 00:33:31,707
Yeah, come bring it down
right in here.
888
00:33:31,707 --> 00:33:34,579
[detector beeping slowly]
889
00:33:34,579 --> 00:33:36,650
[Narrator]
The handheld detector
890
00:33:36,650 --> 00:33:39,188
transmits
an electromagnetic field
891
00:33:39,188 --> 00:33:41,927
that identifies metals,
892
00:33:41,927 --> 00:33:44,064
including gold.
893
00:33:44,064 --> 00:33:47,538
[device beeps]
894
00:33:47,538 --> 00:33:49,341
[Kru] I'm getting
nothing but iron here.
895
00:33:49,341 --> 00:33:50,678
-Let's check them all.
-Oh, definitely.
896
00:33:50,678 --> 00:33:51,546
We're here, let's do it.
897
00:33:53,082 --> 00:33:54,652
[beeping slowly]
898
00:33:57,625 --> 00:33:59,461
[Adam] Anything in there?
899
00:33:59,461 --> 00:34:00,096
[Kru] Just getting iron hits,
that's about it.
900
00:34:01,499 --> 00:34:02,869
Check in there.
901
00:34:02,869 --> 00:34:03,504
[beeps slowly]
902
00:34:06,677 --> 00:34:09,114
Nah, that's too small.
903
00:34:09,114 --> 00:34:10,751
I mean, if there was gold,
904
00:34:10,751 --> 00:34:11,118
this thing would light up
like a Christmas tree.
905
00:34:13,957 --> 00:34:15,594
[Narrator] If Jackson's gold
was buried here,
906
00:34:15,594 --> 00:34:19,234
at some point
over the last century,
907
00:34:19,234 --> 00:34:20,170
someone may have
already found it.
908
00:34:21,773 --> 00:34:23,677
[Adam] If a letter states
909
00:34:23,677 --> 00:34:25,915
that there's gold buried
under a tent-shaped rock,
910
00:34:25,915 --> 00:34:27,852
that would've been
the first thing
911
00:34:27,852 --> 00:34:28,654
people looking for
this lost gold mine
912
00:34:28,654 --> 00:34:30,758
would've found.
913
00:34:30,758 --> 00:34:31,893
It doesn't mean that
the motherlode is not there.
914
00:34:34,465 --> 00:34:36,503
I don't want to waste time
looking for a legend
915
00:34:36,503 --> 00:34:38,707
that he supposedly left some,
916
00:34:38,707 --> 00:34:40,210
when we know
there's a mineral vein up there
917
00:34:40,210 --> 00:34:41,947
that's looking so promising,
918
00:34:41,947 --> 00:34:44,051
and if he was pulling
that much gold,
919
00:34:44,051 --> 00:34:44,652
he's getting it
from that spot right there.
920
00:34:46,923 --> 00:34:50,564
[Narrator] Even if
Jackson's stash is gone,
921
00:34:50,564 --> 00:34:54,338
the source of his find
should still be nearby.
922
00:34:54,338 --> 00:34:55,240
[Adam]
Looking at these three peaks,
923
00:34:55,240 --> 00:34:56,576
right in the middle of them
924
00:34:56,576 --> 00:34:58,714
is this massive mineralization
925
00:34:58,714 --> 00:35:01,285
that's literally crumbling away.
926
00:35:01,285 --> 00:35:03,256
So why waste time
looking for his
927
00:35:03,256 --> 00:35:05,193
when we can go and actually
look for the lode itself?
928
00:35:05,193 --> 00:35:05,260
Let's go get the lode.
929
00:35:09,368 --> 00:35:10,403
[Narrator]
But reaching the vein
930
00:35:10,403 --> 00:35:11,673
won't be easy.
931
00:35:13,443 --> 00:35:15,113
[Kru] That's a huge-ass climb.
932
00:35:15,113 --> 00:35:16,917
When you push through,
933
00:35:16,917 --> 00:35:17,518
and you push through,
and you push through,
934
00:35:17,518 --> 00:35:18,453
you expect a break.
935
00:35:18,453 --> 00:35:19,856
There's no breaks.
936
00:35:19,856 --> 00:35:21,425
[groaning]
937
00:35:21,425 --> 00:35:22,595
All right, let's go get it.
938
00:35:22,595 --> 00:35:22,829
It's worth it for gold.
939
00:35:24,331 --> 00:35:25,233
It's a long way up.
940
00:35:30,845 --> 00:35:32,682
[Narrator] Back in Vancouver,
941
00:35:32,682 --> 00:35:36,055
Taylor is in pursuit
of any evidence
942
00:35:36,055 --> 00:35:38,927
that supports the truth
behind the Slumach legend.
943
00:35:38,927 --> 00:35:41,298
Right now, I've got
more questions than answers.
944
00:35:41,298 --> 00:35:44,371
I want to put the newspaper
articles behind me.
945
00:35:44,371 --> 00:35:45,608
I need to find
a voice I can trust.
946
00:35:47,277 --> 00:35:48,680
[Narrator] Taylor has a lead
947
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,150
on someone
with firsthand knowledge
948
00:35:50,150 --> 00:35:52,655
of Slumach and his life.
949
00:35:52,655 --> 00:35:54,057
[Taylor] In my research,
950
00:35:54,057 --> 00:35:55,594
I've uncovered tapes
of an interview
951
00:35:55,594 --> 00:35:56,897
that was done years ago
952
00:35:56,897 --> 00:35:57,698
with a woman
named Amanda Charnley.
953
00:36:03,342 --> 00:36:06,081
"My father, Peter Pierre,
954
00:36:06,081 --> 00:36:08,987
of the Katzie
Indian Reservation..."
955
00:36:08,987 --> 00:36:10,858
Amanda Charnley's father,
Peter Pierre,
956
00:36:10,858 --> 00:36:12,829
knew the real Slumach.
957
00:36:12,829 --> 00:36:14,999
I'm going to see
if I can reach out
958
00:36:14,999 --> 00:36:16,770
and talk to any
of Amanda's current family,
959
00:36:16,770 --> 00:36:18,841
but this is amazing,
960
00:36:18,841 --> 00:36:20,744
a voice straight from the past.
961
00:36:24,986 --> 00:36:26,623
[Narrator] 20 miles northwest
962
00:36:26,623 --> 00:36:28,694
of the head of Pitt Lake...
963
00:36:28,694 --> 00:36:29,529
[Kru] It's got
some nice mineralization.
964
00:36:29,529 --> 00:36:31,533
[Adam] Yeah.
965
00:36:31,533 --> 00:36:33,236
[Kru] You can see it
the further up we go.
966
00:36:33,236 --> 00:36:35,841
[Narrator] Adam and Kru
are following quartz and iron,
967
00:36:35,841 --> 00:36:38,714
mineral indicators of gold,
968
00:36:38,714 --> 00:36:42,722
upward toward
Jackson's three peaks...
969
00:36:42,722 --> 00:36:44,759
[Adam] Oh yeah, that's
where we gotta check out.
970
00:36:46,495 --> 00:36:48,934
Whew! Wow.
971
00:36:51,438 --> 00:36:52,942
[Adam] Straight down there.
972
00:36:52,942 --> 00:36:53,677
[Narrator]
...but the trek up
973
00:36:53,677 --> 00:36:56,148
was the easy part.
974
00:36:56,148 --> 00:36:58,554
I'll use my 55 metre.
975
00:36:58,554 --> 00:36:59,288
That'll give us enough
to get that ledge.
976
00:37:01,826 --> 00:37:03,797
[Adam] If this peak has
gold-bearing ore,
977
00:37:03,797 --> 00:37:04,298
you need to actually
get a sample of it.
978
00:37:06,603 --> 00:37:08,239
[Narrator] The crumbling area
over the edge
979
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,412
will give them the best shot
at detecting gold.
980
00:37:11,412 --> 00:37:13,282
To get a sample of this,
you know,
981
00:37:13,282 --> 00:37:13,416
you need to go on the face.
982
00:37:15,921 --> 00:37:16,990
[Kru] It's, like,
all bustin' away.
983
00:37:16,990 --> 00:37:17,592
How are you going
to get down there?
984
00:37:17,592 --> 00:37:20,263
We'll rappel down.
985
00:37:20,263 --> 00:37:21,031
-I'm not going to walk.
- You'll rappel down.
986
00:37:21,031 --> 00:37:22,100
[Kru laughs]
987
00:37:24,071 --> 00:37:25,608
[Kru] I don't know
what motivates this man,
988
00:37:25,608 --> 00:37:27,077
but he does things
989
00:37:27,077 --> 00:37:27,444
that most normal people
will not do.
990
00:37:31,185 --> 00:37:32,153
[Kru] You seriously think
that's gonna work?
991
00:37:32,153 --> 00:37:34,893
[Adam] 98% sure.
992
00:37:34,893 --> 00:37:36,195
Okay, at least
you're being honest.
993
00:37:36,195 --> 00:37:37,832
I'll take the gun.
994
00:37:37,832 --> 00:37:40,103
Here you go, captain.
995
00:37:40,103 --> 00:37:42,575
Careful,
that's 40K in your hand.
996
00:37:42,575 --> 00:37:45,547
[Narrator] The handheld
XRF spectrometer
997
00:37:45,547 --> 00:37:46,783
uses x-ray technology...
998
00:37:46,783 --> 00:37:48,452
[Kru] There you go.
999
00:37:48,452 --> 00:37:49,989
[Narrator]
...to detect, analyze,
1000
00:37:49,989 --> 00:37:53,062
and I. D. minerals at a glance.
1001
00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:53,797
It's like having
a piece of the future
1002
00:37:53,797 --> 00:37:54,799
in your hand.
1003
00:37:54,799 --> 00:37:56,235
Bombs away.
1004
00:37:58,807 --> 00:38:00,511
-Whoo!
-Little windy out.
1005
00:38:00,511 --> 00:38:01,345
[Adam]
See that wind take the rope?
1006
00:38:01,345 --> 00:38:02,782
[Kru] Yup.
1007
00:38:02,782 --> 00:38:03,482
Just don't let it take you, man.
1008
00:38:06,422 --> 00:38:08,192
All right, be safe.
1009
00:38:10,463 --> 00:38:13,570
[Adam] Gotta protect this gun.
1010
00:38:13,570 --> 00:38:16,308
[Kru] And yourself, bro.
1011
00:38:16,308 --> 00:38:19,649
[Narrator] It's a 200-foot drop
to the ice field below,
1012
00:38:19,649 --> 00:38:22,020
and a bumpy ride down.
1013
00:38:25,828 --> 00:38:28,734
[Kru] My fear is he gets
too comfortable out here.
1014
00:38:28,734 --> 00:38:30,303
Like, to be honest, I get it,
he's done this.
1015
00:38:30,303 --> 00:38:32,240
It's like,
"Oh, no big deal," you know,
1016
00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:33,877
but at the end of the day,
a rock is a rock,
1017
00:38:33,877 --> 00:38:34,344
a fall is fall,
a death is a death.
1018
00:38:36,816 --> 00:38:38,286
We're gonna get these samples
and get home safe.
1019
00:38:39,889 --> 00:38:40,958
[exhales deeply]
1020
00:38:43,062 --> 00:38:44,231
You should see
all those crystals here.
1021
00:38:44,231 --> 00:38:44,899
[blowing]
1022
00:38:47,838 --> 00:38:49,207
The geology in here
is pretty neat.
1023
00:38:49,207 --> 00:38:50,410
It's got vugs of crystals
in the side of this wall.
1024
00:38:52,748 --> 00:38:54,151
[Narrator]
It's another good sign
1025
00:38:54,151 --> 00:38:57,858
of the kind of mineralization
linked to gold.
1026
00:38:57,858 --> 00:38:59,061
I just have to go down
a little further.
1027
00:39:01,265 --> 00:39:03,637
[Narrator] But with Adam
over the edge...
1028
00:39:03,637 --> 00:39:05,206
What's going on
with this rope?
1029
00:39:05,206 --> 00:39:09,515
[Narrator]
...it's on Kru to keep watch.
1030
00:39:09,515 --> 00:39:11,352
This is sketchy as it gets.
1031
00:39:14,191 --> 00:39:15,694
-Whoa!
-Watch out, watch out!
1032
00:39:15,694 --> 00:39:17,063
-[rock tumbling]
-Watch out!
1033
00:39:24,512 --> 00:39:27,484
-Whoa.
-Watch out, watch out!
1034
00:39:27,484 --> 00:39:28,319
-[rock tumbling]
-Watch out!
1035
00:39:31,358 --> 00:39:33,362
My god!
1036
00:39:33,362 --> 00:39:34,732
We almost just started
a rock slide, bro.
1037
00:39:34,732 --> 00:39:36,670
You okay?
-Yeah, it's good!
1038
00:39:36,670 --> 00:39:38,339
[chuckles]
That was [bleep] close, man.
1039
00:39:38,339 --> 00:39:41,011
You can't even relax
a second out here.
1040
00:39:41,011 --> 00:39:42,414
Sometimes you do it so often,
1041
00:39:42,414 --> 00:39:44,084
and you become complacent.
1042
00:39:44,084 --> 00:39:45,988
You just think
"Oh, it's just another rappel."
1043
00:39:45,988 --> 00:39:47,190
At the end of the day,
1044
00:39:47,190 --> 00:39:49,227
nothing is worth your life.
1045
00:39:49,227 --> 00:39:50,463
I just have to go down
a little further.
1046
00:39:53,169 --> 00:39:54,237
[Kru] Obviously he's got to be
a little bit shook,
1047
00:39:54,237 --> 00:39:56,408
but he didn't stop,
he didn't quit.
1048
00:39:56,408 --> 00:39:56,943
You know, he kept doing
what he had to do,
1049
00:39:56,943 --> 00:39:57,310
and he got it done.
1050
00:39:59,081 --> 00:40:00,851
Yeah, I got a good spot here.
1051
00:40:00,851 --> 00:40:02,955
Cross your fingers, man.
1052
00:40:02,955 --> 00:40:04,559
Let's get some gold
out of this.
1053
00:40:04,559 --> 00:40:06,996
Walter Jackson pulled gold
outta the dirt out there.
1054
00:40:06,996 --> 00:40:09,635
Dick Carter came back
1055
00:40:09,635 --> 00:40:11,338
with a pan full of gold
and nuggets.
1056
00:40:11,338 --> 00:40:13,577
[Narrator]
The clues in Jackson's letter
1057
00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:14,679
appear to line up.
1058
00:40:14,679 --> 00:40:16,883
Three peaks,
1059
00:40:16,883 --> 00:40:19,822
and a tent-shaped rock.
1060
00:40:19,822 --> 00:40:21,926
Could this be the source
1061
00:40:21,926 --> 00:40:24,632
of Slumach's
legendary lost gold?
1062
00:40:24,632 --> 00:40:26,335
Come on, man.
1063
00:40:26,335 --> 00:40:26,903
You're killing me
with suspense here.
1064
00:40:29,007 --> 00:40:31,378
Very rarely
do you get to feel the...
1065
00:40:31,378 --> 00:40:32,982
and the anxiety,
1066
00:40:32,982 --> 00:40:33,482
and anticipation
for something, you know?
1067
00:40:44,672 --> 00:40:47,210
Is it looking good?
1068
00:40:47,210 --> 00:40:49,582
Iron.
1069
00:40:49,582 --> 00:40:51,285
Lots and lots of iron.
1070
00:40:51,285 --> 00:40:53,122
[exhales deeply]
1071
00:40:53,122 --> 00:40:55,561
Magnesium, calcium.
1072
00:40:57,397 --> 00:40:58,533
-No gold.
-Nothing?
1073
00:40:58,533 --> 00:40:59,602
Nope.
1074
00:40:59,602 --> 00:41:01,405
[Kru] Oh, boy.
1075
00:41:01,405 --> 00:41:03,643
Everything
but the frickin' gold.
1076
00:41:03,643 --> 00:41:04,111
Hurry up and get up here, man.
1077
00:41:07,484 --> 00:41:08,587
This is not Jackson's
secret gold source.
1078
00:41:10,524 --> 00:41:12,628
[Kru] It sucked.
1079
00:41:12,628 --> 00:41:13,897
It sucked
not coming out of there
1080
00:41:13,897 --> 00:41:15,133
with pockets full of gold,
1081
00:41:15,133 --> 00:41:15,667
but it doesn't mean we're done.
1082
00:41:17,905 --> 00:41:20,376
But at least we know now
with our own eyes
1083
00:41:20,376 --> 00:41:22,915
that this isn't that area
that we're looking for,
1084
00:41:22,915 --> 00:41:24,819
so just to be able
to mark something off
1085
00:41:24,819 --> 00:41:26,756
is a big step
in the right direction.
1086
00:41:26,756 --> 00:41:28,359
Now I'm addicted.
1087
00:41:28,359 --> 00:41:30,363
[laughs] Now I don't care
where it's at.
1088
00:41:30,363 --> 00:41:31,699
[laughing]
1089
00:41:31,699 --> 00:41:33,570
Let's get out.
1090
00:41:33,570 --> 00:41:35,006
[♪♪♪♪♪]
1091
00:41:40,617 --> 00:41:41,986
[Narrator] Back at the team's
Seabird Island base...
1092
00:41:46,563 --> 00:41:49,100
Okay.
1093
00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:51,706
[Narrator] ...Taylor
is checking out the new find,
1094
00:41:51,706 --> 00:41:53,643
hoping to learn
something concrete
1095
00:41:53,643 --> 00:41:55,146
about Slumach's life.
1096
00:42:13,048 --> 00:42:15,353
[Taylor] This is history
1097
00:42:15,353 --> 00:42:17,423
coming directly from someone
that's First Nations.
1098
00:42:29,447 --> 00:42:30,684
I'm just like, wait,
1099
00:42:30,684 --> 00:42:32,420
did I just really hear that?
1100
00:42:32,420 --> 00:42:33,657
So there is gold?
1101
00:42:36,028 --> 00:42:38,332
So Amanda said
1102
00:42:38,332 --> 00:42:40,102
that her father heard
directly from Slumach
1103
00:42:40,102 --> 00:42:40,436
where the gold mine is.
1104
00:42:42,373 --> 00:42:44,612
Slumach actually found gold.
1105
00:42:47,016 --> 00:42:48,553
Hearing it
from Amanda Charnley,
1106
00:42:48,553 --> 00:42:50,056
it's validation.
1107
00:42:50,056 --> 00:42:50,691
This is absolutely incredible.
1108
00:42:53,864 --> 00:42:55,132
[Narrator]
The team's first expedition
1109
00:42:55,132 --> 00:42:56,435
hasn't led to the motherlode...
1110
00:42:58,005 --> 00:42:59,976
but this voice,
1111
00:42:59,976 --> 00:43:02,247
connected to Slumach himself,
1112
00:43:02,247 --> 00:43:05,353
says the mine is real...
1113
00:43:08,259 --> 00:43:10,731
so if there's fact
in the legend,
1114
00:43:10,731 --> 00:43:12,835
the team
will continue the search
1115
00:43:12,835 --> 00:43:15,006
to find the gold,
1116
00:43:15,006 --> 00:43:18,647
and uncover the truth.
1117
00:43:21,285 --> 00:43:22,788
[Taylor] We're only just
skimming the top of this thing.
1118
00:43:25,761 --> 00:43:26,729
There is something out there...
1119
00:43:28,533 --> 00:43:29,635
and we can find it.
1120
00:43:33,142 --> 00:43:35,781
[Narrator] Next time...
1121
00:43:35,781 --> 00:43:37,618
In the ring of the mountains,
you're gonna get hit.
1122
00:43:37,618 --> 00:43:39,020
[ice crunching sharply]
1123
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:41,191
The mountain's
always gonna win.
1124
00:43:41,191 --> 00:43:42,427
If it doesn't command
your respect,
1125
00:43:42,427 --> 00:43:43,663
something will happen to you.
1126
00:43:43,663 --> 00:43:45,099
I like to get gold.
1127
00:43:45,099 --> 00:43:48,238
I don't like
to not get gold.
1128
00:43:48,238 --> 00:43:49,742
There's some big clues
in this footage.
1129
00:43:49,742 --> 00:43:52,447
We're on the right path.
1130
00:43:52,447 --> 00:43:55,219
[Kru] Whoo! Making my heart beat
a little bit faster.
1131
00:43:55,219 --> 00:43:55,988
The most treacherous terrain
in British Columbia.
1132
00:43:55,988 --> 00:43:57,791
Oh boy.
1133
00:43:57,791 --> 00:43:59,996
-Whoa-ho!
-Things got crazy.
1134
00:43:59,996 --> 00:44:01,064
Quartz vein in here.
1135
00:44:01,064 --> 00:44:02,333
Oh, my god!
1136
00:44:02,333 --> 00:44:04,070
This feels very real.