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Exploring Remote Lands: OVERLANDING on the World Famous ALASKA HIGHWAY | Why Was It Built? | Vlog15

00:00 Intro 00:34 Mile 0 01:43 What and where is the Alaska Highway 02:14 History of the Alaska Highway (Why it was built) 06:25 Road trip game while overlanding 07:33 Abandoned service stations of the Alaska Highway 08:00 Perfect camp on the Alaska Highway 12:00 Muncho Lake / Old Alaska Highway Trail hike 14:54 Liard Hot Springs Alaska Highway With its almost 1400 miles length through some of North America's most extreme environments, the AH was one of the most ambitious construction projects of the US and Canada and it was built to defend a continent. Today it is considered one of the most scenic highways in Canada, so no surprise that we were really eager to see it. Beginning in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and winding north-westerly through BC into the Yukon and then to the US border, the road passes from the Rocky Mountains to subarctic alpine tundra to the jagged peaks of Kluane National Park and Reserve before ending at Delta Junction, Alaska. It’s history and the reasons for its construction are fascinating. Dawson Creek , where the Alaska Highway 0-mile is located, wasn't much more than a 600-person rail terminal when Canada and the US first began discussing plans to build a road connecting the lower 48 states with Alaska in 1929. Until then, Alaska was only accessible by boat from the US mainland, and so the isolated territory seemed especially at risk against a potential Japanese attack. Several route options were considered, but the events of Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, made decision making much quicker. Three months after the attack, thousands of US troops and a huge amount of heavy equipment arrived by rail at the tiny town of Dawson Creek to begin one of the US' most expensive construction projects of World War Two. The construction of the road was as unusual as the terrain it was built on. They were working so fast, when a bulldozer, grader or truck broke, it was pushed out of the way and they kept going. Some 16,000 US and Canadian soldiers and civilians were working through some of the region's coldest temperatures on record. Drinking water froze solid, diesel thickened, and ice could lock up the wheels of a truck if it stood still for more than a few seconds.  Men had to fight swamps, rivers, ice and cold along with mosquitoes, flies and grizzly bears. Even today, maintenance of the road is quite difficult as some sections were built on unstable sub-arctic ground. Incredibly, it only took 8 months to build the Alaska Highway . With the extra daylight of the midnight sun, crews worked double shifts in the summer. Crossing 129 rivers and 8,000 mountain streams, the highway was built in sections. This meant there were a few places where the builders met and linked their sections of road together. The opening ceremonies took place at a scenic spot called Soldier's Summit in what's now Kluane National Park on 20th of November 1942 and the road opened to military traffic. It was originally known as the Alaska Military Highway or Alcan but it’s initial military purpose began to fade from memory as soon as the route opened to the public after the war in 1948. From there, the legend only grew – the story about an impossible-to-build highway that could take visitors across some of the roughest and most beautiful land imaginable. From Dawson Creek, the highway winds west into the Northern Rockies, first passing farmland, forests and fast flowing rivers. The boreal forests, craggy rocks and sparkling jade lakes of the Yukon form an incredible panorama. More details about the van itself:    • Better Than the SPRINTER! Find out why the...   ------------------- Sources https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_... http://signpostforest.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liard_R... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondik... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukon_T... The Alaska Highway Documentary - Produced by the Signal Corps ------------------- Instagram:   / overlandsite   Website: https://www.overlandsite.com/ ------------------- Supported, in part, by: ARB Europe - https://arbeurope.com/ Euro4x4Parts - https://www.euro4x4parts.com/en Ultra Vision Australia - https://ultra-vision.com.au/ EZ Pack - https://www.ezpack-usa.com/ Hi-Lift - https://hi-lift.com/ Kupilka - https://kupilka.fi/ Asfir - https://www.asfir.com/ Evershower - https://www.evershower.eu/ Scrubba - https://thescrubba.com/ Walkstool - http://www.walkstool.com/ ------------------- Music: Alon Peretz - Today Is the Day Chris Mason - Sunsets and Streetlights Tristan Barton - Momentum Tristan Barton - The Racer