Obstacles
Malnutrition was a large problem on the Chilkoot and White Pass Trails and many died from it The dead horses left on Dead Horse Trail on the White Pass Trail were often eaten by men suffering from malnutrition and caused severe sickness in these men. It was rumoured that a traveled had used his boots as a source of food by boiling them and then drinking the water/broth after so he could eat. Physical illness was not the only problem to plague the travelers as many also went insane along the trails. It has been suggested that the diet of the travelers is what caused the mental illness and the insanity which was so common. Along the trail the only shelter were thin tents the travelers could use in the -40 degree temperatures.
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“It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount. It is true we may come to a perpendicular precipice, but we need not jump off, nor run our heads against it. A man may jump down his own cellar stairs, or dash his brains out against his chimney, if he is mad.”
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