All language subtitles for Deadmans.Curse.S01E01.1080p.WEBRip.x265-RARBG

So I'm gonna tell you
straight up,

from the very beginning,

I have not feared that curse,

plain and simple.

I know there's a lot of gold,

and I know I can get it.

That's what I'm doing.

[Narrator] It is said

somewhere,

hidden deep
within the mountains

of Pitt Lake,
British Columbia

lies a source of pure gold
worth billions.

It is a tale passed down
through generations,

with a lure of wealth

beyond human imagination...

[Kru] This is over
a 100-year-old mystery.

I heard this
when I was a teenager.

It's bigger than big time,
it's legendary.

[Adam]
The legend describes

that there's a creek
covered with gold.

There's nuggets everywhere.

We're looking for
Slumach's gold mine.

[Taylor] The story
is about this Slumach guy

that found gold.

[Fred] That Slumach
was a murderer,

killing to protect the gold
that he had found.

As he stood on the gallows,

Slumach expressed a curse.

[Kru] "When I die,
the mine dies."

[Adam] A death sentence

to anyone that tries
to find his gold.

[Narrator] ...but Slumach was
just the start of the story...

Nice to meet you.

This has been in my family
for years.

No way.

Wow!

[Don] You don't
wanna fall in here.

This is straight down.

Sketchy.

[Narrator] ...the legend ignited
a treacherous 100-year search

for his gold.

[Fred] The terrain
is absolutely impossible.

[Adam] You're not
freaking out, are ya?

It is life-threatening
everywhere.

[Kru] This is terrain
people don't come back from.

-[ice cracking]
-It's started to break apart.

We're talking major
coastal weather systems

that will kill you.

If you don't find it
in three months,

you're waiting
till the next year.

If the gold
was easily accessible,

there would be no legends.

[Narrator] Now

a new team of gold hunters
and adventurers...

-We're like right over it.
-That is really, really cool.

You can see the circular design
around the top.

[Narrator] ...bands together

to solve
the 100-year-old mystery...

[♪♪♪♪♪]

[Kru] Something happened
to this guy.

[Narrator] ...to find the gold,

and test the truth
behind the legend

and the curse.

[Taylor] We're not alone,
I'll just say that.

[Kru] People have died,
people have disappeared,

people don't come back.

This is what he was after.

[Kru] We're not going to make
the same mistakes.

Watch out!

That is beautiful.

Oh yeah.

There is no better motivation
than gold.

[♪♪♪♪♪]

Hi. I'm Bill Burrud,

the program is "Treasure,"

and our story
is an exciting one

about John Slumach,

who's supposed to have
had a gold mine

hidden away in the wild
Pitt Lake mountain country

just 60 miles from Vancouver,
British Columbia.

Shrouded in legend,

cursed for over 68 years

by the ghost of its owner.

Anyone who looks
for the Lost Creek Mine

is walking
right into a death trap.

All the way down,

I want you to go through.

Mix up your strikes.

Work on balance.

All right. [claps]

I'm Kru Williams.

I'm a Mixed Martial Arts
Instructor

and prospector.

I believe in God, gold,
and guns.

[exhaling sharply]

I've been in the fight game
pretty much all my life.

Fighting in the streets,

to Muay Thai overseas,

to MMA over here.

[exhaling sharply]

I'm passionate about life.

In it for the fun.

I love finding gold.

'Cause when I'm out there,
I'm in the zone.

There's nothing more addictive

than panning out some pay dirt,

and seeing those
pretty little easter eggs

pop up out of the black sand.

Obviously if I'm
on the outside looking in,

yeah, it's gold fever, okay,

but when you're on the gold,

you need to be on the gold.

[chainsaw buzzing]

In 2022,

I made the decision
to prospect full-time.

With this mission
to find Slumach's gold,

I'm putting it all on the line.

[Narrator]
Pitt Lake, British Columbia,

home to some of the most
difficult terrain in the world.

[Kru] I know fighting
and prospecting.

Climbing glaciers?
Not so much.

To be able to go to the routes
that Slumach did,

you've gotta be proficient
in everything.

At the end of the day,
you need an Adam.

My name is Adam Palmer.
I'm a mountaineer.

[laughs] Mountaineer...

It sounds weird
to say "I'm a mountaineer."

I'm a mountaineer.

You want to check it out
and see if it's okay or not?

[Adam chuckling]
You're scared?

[Kru]
You're pretty good at that.

Somebody who'll actually
go to the places

that no one will go...

climb the things
that no one will climb...

...and let you know
what's on the other side

or underneath something.

So, yeah, you need an Adam.

[laughs]

-You do this for fun?
-Every day.

[laughs] Every day.

Well, Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays.

I first heard about
the Lost Creek Gold Mine

when I was 12 years old.

I've been searching
for 20 years.

I met Kru at the gym.

We got talking.

We realized
we had a shared passion

for finding Slumach's gold.

We both grew up
watching the same shows,

and reading the same books
about this legend.

Welcome to "Gold Trails
and Ghost Towns."

I'm Mike Roberts,
and with me is Bill Barlee.

Today we've got a story

that'll just raise the hair
on the back of your neck.

The treasure
is sometimes called

the Lost Mine of Pitt Lake.

I'd rather call it
Slumach's Lost Mine.

On the 16th of January
in 1891, he is hanged.

"Nika memloose, mine memloose."

It means, "When I die,
the mine dies."

Every time I'd watch that show,
it put me in a good mood,

and, you know,
just kind of stoke the fire

to find that gold.

I think this particular
treasure still exists.

[Adam] Looking for
the Lost Creek Gold Mine

isn't just about
finding gold,

this is about solving
a 150-year-old mystery.

The top figure
has some sort of weapon.

[Narrator] Dusting off
a 100-year-old mystery

takes more than muscle,

so Adam has turned
to a close friend

with a unique set of skills.

[Adam] When you go
through areas with rich history,

you look for people
that know that history.

My name is Fulamaluk Khalatia,

but my English name,
my given name,

is Taylor Starr.

Taylor is one of the strongest
assets we have on this team.

[Kru] Eagle-eyed Taylor

sees things that, you know,

a seasoned hunter
won't even see out there.

There's more tracks
right down here.

This is definitely
an adult wolf,

'cause you see how big it is
compared to my hand.

[Adam] She has this intimate
knowledge of the land

that will help us
solve this puzzle.

[Narrator] For Taylor,
the story is personal.

Taylor is
the great-great-grand-niece

of Slumach.

[Taylor] My grandma is from
the Katzie First Nations

where Slumach is from,

so then I started doing
a little research,

and I'm like, "Well, shoot,

I'm related to this guy."

[Narrator] But growing up
in Seabird Island First Nation,

Taylor knew little
about her great uncle Slumach.

[Taylor] When I was growing up,

I never heard anything
about Slumach.

He was essentially
banished from history.

Just poof! Gone.

[Narrator]
As for his fabled fortune...

[Taylor] Historically,

gold never meant anything
to First Nations people,

apart from everybody
trampling on our land

to go and find it.

For me,

the gold is actually
completing this family tree.

We find the gold,
we finish Slumach's story.

[Narrator] Now, a prospector,

a mountaineer,

and a truth-seeker

band together

to travel trails gone cold

of those who never made it back

in the search for Slumach's
legendary lost gold.

We got a lot of stuff
to look through, eh?

[Narrator] West of Pitt Lake,

at their new
Seabird Island base...

Is this the first one?

[Narrator] ...Adam and Kru

begin their search
with early reports

of gold-seekers
inspired by the Slumach legend.

You start at the beginning,

and you go through all this,
and you find, you know,

little bits of information
here and there that just add up.

The best way to find
Slumach's gold

is to follow those
who followed him.

[Kru]
If you want to find something,

talk to someone
who's already found it.

That's Walter Jackson.

[Narrator]
Slumach was hanged in 1891.

10 years later,

American Walter Jackson

made multiple trips

into the British Columbian
wilderness,

where, reports claim,
he found Slumach's gold.

"Every season
for several years

he came out late in the fall

with 5,000 to 7,000
in gold nuggets."

Back then,
thousands of dollars.

Can you imagine what
that's actually worth now?

-Big find.
-That's huge.

[Narrator] The story goes,

after finding
Slumach's gold source,

Jackson was weighed down
with too much gold to carry out,

so he buried
what he couldn't transport,

not knowing it would be
his last expedition.

Back home in San Francisco,

Jackson fell gravely ill.

On his deathbed,
he wrote a letter to a friend

with clues to the location
of his hidden treasure.

Any prospector who's out there

looking for this gold

has got a copy of that letter
in their back pocket.

That's the reason
they're out there

in the first place.

[Narrator]
But over a century,

clues revealed
in the Jackson letter

have been lost,

or purposefully omitted.

[Kru] Someone
changed words in there,

someone redacted information

so that you can't find the gold.

[Narrator] ...but key details
in the letter were constant.

This is the one
that I grew up on, you know,

with the tent-shaped rock.

"I came to a place
where the bedrock was bare,

and there,
you could hardly believe me,

the bedrock
was yellow with gold.

I buried part of the gold

at the foot of a large
tent-shaped rock."

"The canyon is guarded
by three peaks.

[Adam] The key clues

and the key indicators
of this letter

are, you know, three peaks.

There's a tent-shaped rock,

there's a disappearing creek.

Oh, right there.

[Narrator] Three peaks,

a creek,

and a tent-shaped rock...

landmarks
that could be anywhere.

Look at this right here.

This guy's done it 10 times.

"1947, Lost mine
hunted 25 years...

Painter soon will try again."

Who's this painter?

"Cyril Walters,
a sign painter."

He had a copy
of the Jackson letter.

He must have known something
that others didn't,

because he's very specific.

In the letter he had,

it's giving him directions
exactly where to go.

So it'd have to be
a different letter?

Different version.

I mean, it says here

"a copy of that letter

came into Cyril Walters' hands
in 1922."

What?

Where did Cyril
get that letter from?

That's the one I want.

[Adam] This is a big deal.

This could be an original copy
of the Jackson letter.

[Narrator]
The article reveals

that Cyril Walters
didn't prospect alone.

[Adam] So four of them.

"Vancouver sign painters,

all are treasure hunters."

Key word "all."

"All are treasure hunters

inspired by Cyril Walters."

Bam!

The article claims

that this man and his friends

have an actual original copy
of the Jackson letter.

Now we can get these guys,

we can find their relatives.

Like, somebody's
gotta have something.

To see the real thing...

[sighs]

that would be phenomenal.

Let's go do this, man.

Whoo... hoo, hoo!

Gettin' excited, man!

[Adam]
We need to find this letter.

This piece of the puzzle

could blow the whole legend
wide open.

So, what's the next step?

[Narrator] In their search
for Slumach's lost gold,

Adam and Kru examine clues

left by an early 1900s
prospector.

If you're going to find
Slumach's gold,

you start with
the Jackson Letter.

[Narrator] Walter Jackson

penned a deathbed letter
to a friend

detailing directions
to the gold's secret location,

but like a game
of broken telephone,

details in the letter changed

and disappeared over time.

99% of us
have seen the fake one.

At the end of the day,
to see the original?

That's what we need.

[Narrator] A new lead
in a 1940s newspaper article

refers to a Vancouver man

and his friends

in possession
of an early copy

of the Jackson Letter.

It's the best
and clearest link to date

back to Slumach

and his legendary lost gold.

[engine rumbling]

[Adam] I did some digging,
did some research.

Cyril Walters
died some time ago,

and I cannot find
any of his living relatives.

[Narrator] Leaving Adam
with the only other name

listed in the article.

[Adam] Arthur Dick Carter.

His obituary
mentions grandchildren.

I'm looking for an Ian Carter.

It's a long shot.

The problem is
there's a lot of Ian Carters.

How do you know
which is the right one,

except by calling
every single Ian Carter

I can find.

[call ringing]

[man] Hello?

Hey, I'm looking
for Ian Carter?

-I heard you--
-What?

I'm looking for Ian Carter

that's got a copy
of the Jackson Letter.

I think you might have
the wrong number.

Okay.

[call ringing]

[woman] Yeah?

Hey, is Ian Carter there?

I'm looking for
any living relative

of Dick Carter.

Sorry, wrong number.

[man #2] I think
it's wrong number.

[man #3]
Wrong number, buddy, sorry.

[call ringing]

[static crackling]

[automated voice] Your call
cannot be completed as dialed.

[call ringing]

Hello?

-Is this Ian?
-Yeah.

This is Ian Carter?

Yeah.

Hey, Ian, it's Adam Palmer.

I'm trying to get
some information

regarding your grandfather,

and supposedly he was connected
to Cyril Walters.

He was in possession
of a Jackson letter.

He showed us that letter

when I was like five or six.

And you have the letter?

Yeah.

This is the missing
piece of the puzzle

that we're looking for.

And you would be okay
to get together?

Yeah, yeah, we could
set something up for sure.

I mean, it doesn't usually
always work out this way.

[chuckles]
Actually, it never does.

[Narrator]
Back in Vancouver,

Taylor begins her search
for the truth

behind her ancestor Slumach,

his life, and claims of gold.

[Taylor] It's hard to tell

what is fact and what is fiction

in the Slumach story.

I'm starting to look into

all the newspaper articles
about him.

"At the Pitt River on Monday,

an old Indian named Slumach

picked up a gun
and shot Louis Bee,

a half-breed,

through the chest."

[Taylor] We know Slumach
was a real person.

We know in 1891

he was hung
for shooting another man.

[Narrator]
The legend of Slumach

tells of a brash young man
from Pitt Lake

arriving in the city
of New Westminster every year

loaded with gold,
and flaunting his wealth.

When he kills
to protect his mine,

he is hanged,

and from the gallows,

curses anyone seeking his gold.

[♪♪♪♪♪]

[Don] Slumach.

It'd be interesting to know
actually who took that photo.

Yeah.

[Taylor] Don is my father.

In the team,
he is like our elder...

-Drum roll.
-Miss.

Ooh!

[Taylor] ...but he doesn't
like to be referred to

as an elder. [laughs]

Do you wanna stand there

with an apple on your head
for me?

No, I'll wait a bit.

We always look up to him.

We always go to him

for just that
little bit of wisdom

that he can pass on.

Nice!

[Taylor reads] "Indian Killer
once Terror of Pitt Lake."

[Don chuckles] Yeah.

Why do they have to say
"Indian Killer?"

Could have just said
"killer," right?

Yeah, gets people to read the--
like, read the article.

Like, "Ooh,
what is this about?"

So it looks like the media,

they're painting Slumach
like the...

this terrible villain.

Yeah.

Of course they were,
at that time, so oppressed.

Their right of governance

to traditional justice was gone.

[Taylor]
From my research so far,

I know some of the legend
is a total invention.

Lots of truths and mistruths

and just straight-out lies
in the entire story.

Everything was, like,
embellished,

but we need to know this stuff.

-Yes.

[Taylor]
I absolutely want the truth.

I want to find out
about the man himself,

to piece together
who Slumach was,

and to find the real story.

[Narrator] On the trail
of the Jackson letter...

Ian?

-How are you?
-Good. Adam?

-Yeah.
-Nice to meet you.

-Kru.
-Kru, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you also.

[Narrator] ...Adam and Kru
have tracked down

the grandson
of a Pitt Lake gold hunter...

Come on in.

[Narrator] ...and possibly

Walter Jackson's
directions to the gold.

[Ian] I have some great stuff
to show you.

Gonna have to move
a little bit of things.

[Adam] He has all this stuff
saved in this box,

and now we get to open it up

and actually see.

This has been in my family
for years.

Grandpa's box.

[lid creaks open]

This box originally
belonged to my grandparents.

[Narrator] In their search
for Slumach's lost gold,

Adam and Kru have tracked down
Ian Carter,

grandson
of a Pitt Lake gold hunter.

[Ian] As kids,

we were never allowed
to look at this stuff.

When my grandparents
passed away,

my dad got this box,

and then when he passed away,

it came to me.

[lid creaks open]

We've got some original photos.

These are from the 1940s.

The minute he pulled out
those photos,

I knew for real

that his grandfather
was in that area.

His grandfather wasn't just
claiming to go looking,

he actually was looking
for Slumach's gold.

No way.

Look at what he's holding
in his hand here, man.

Look at the size
of those frickin' nuggets.

That is just phenomenal.

That's gold.

It's amazing.

That's like the most gold

I've ever seen
pulled out of that area,

let alone pulled out of
any area out here.

Deep pans of gold--

He definitely did find gold
at one time.

Look at the size
of the nuggets.

[Ian] Those are huge, yeah.

[Narrator] The photo evidence
is compelling,

and difficult to deny.

You can see the corner edges,

it looks like it's been
moulded together.

He's out in the middle
of the bush.

It wasn't like
he processed anything.

It doesn't get realer
than that.

You didn't have Photoshop
back then.

That's gold.

[Narrator]
Walnut-sized nuggets

support the idea

that Cyril's party was working
with detailed directions

to find the lost gold,

but what other details
do these photos reveal?

[Adam] You have him
on a float plane here,

so obviously
he's landing somewhere

where it's float plane
accessible.

So from that lake,

they crossed a glacier,

and it looks like they are stuck

at the end of a glacier here

with the ice fall,

and then it looks like
they turned around.

So I think this is
what you guys came for.

This is the original
Jackson Letter

that my grandpa...

-Whew.
-...has kept all these years.

It looks like
it's about to fall apart.

Yeah, the last page
is a little bit fragile.

[Adam] This is the letter

that people
have been looking for,

have been talking about,

and he pulls it out of this box.

Let's see here.

Wow, you really
got to piece this together.

This is the first time
I've ever even seen this.

Look at this.

It's always the last page.

Last page.

[Kru] That last page
of the letter

was the only piece

that was almost disintegrating.

The reason why

is it had the most important
part of it.

"From the very head
of Pitt Lake,

not more than 20 miles northwest

to the hidden treasure."

"More than 20 miles
in the northwest direction

to the hidden treasure."

[laughs]

[Kru] To actually see this
is phenomenal.

This letter
is way more detailed

than the one I've grown up with.

It actually states distance
and measurements

from Pitt Lake

to where you're going
to locate this lost gold mine.

The letter is saying

20 miles northwest
of Pitt Lake.

We have pictures of a trip
that show glacier travel...

so, you know,
you put those two together,

I know exactly where this is.

[Narrator] 20 miles northwest of
the head of Pitt Lake

is a remote,
glaciated mountain range

known as the Mamquam Icefield.

[Adam] That's where
we're going to go.

You're going to be standing

right where these guys are,

and then we're going
to have to go right there.

[Kru] It's like a whole
'nother world.

Ian Carter's grandfather
was using this letter

on this expedition

that these photos
are taken from.

He was at the head wall
of the glacier,

and that's what
turned him around.

Well, that's not
going to turn us around.

That's going to be me and you.

-[laughs]
-I'm going to be this guy here,

you're going to be that guy.
-I'll be that guy.

As long as we both
come back safe.

[♪♪♪♪♪]

[Adam] We get ourselves
high up on this glacier,

we can see exactly
where those three peaks line up,

but you gotta be careful
going through here, though.

[Narrator] But to get there,

Kru and Adam's
first expedition together

will force them
across the icefield.

It's a trek that even Adam
has never made,

and one that Kru
has never imagined.

[Kru] I mean, I really want
to slide down this hill, though.

[Adam] No.

I don't recommend any sliding
on a glacier.

[Kru] It's a weird mix
of bravery, guts,

and a little bit of stupidity.

We probably shouldn't be there.

Nature doesn't care.

But when there's gold up there,
I don't care,

and at the end of the day,

ain't nothin' gonna stop me
from gettin' that gold,

period.

Watch out for that crack.

[Adam] Kru's gold fever

could be a little bit
of a concern,

because gold fever will hit you
and distract you.

[Kru chortling]

All we gotta do
is go through here.

Beautiful.

Perfect.

Black ice.

[Kru] Being on the glacier
for the first time,

that's what separates
the weak from the strong.

[Adam] Watch out for the holes.

[♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator]
75 kilometres south,

just east of Vancouver...

[Fred] Let me see
what we have here. Oh, yeah.

I see you've done
a little bit of research.

[Narrator] Taylor's determined
to find out who Slumach was

behind the headlines,

so she's turned to Fred Braches,
a local historian

and author of "Searching
for Pitt Lake Gold."

These things
are all transcribed, eh?

Yep.

So all these books
you did yourself?

Yeah, yeah.

I'm interested about history,
the true history.

One of the things
you have to take care of

that you don't believe
the newspapers at the time.

Journalists
they didn't go there,

they didn't talk to the people.
-Mm-hmm.

They heard rumours,

and that's all what there was.

Do not trust anything
which is published.

There is the real Slumach,

and there is
the fantasy Slumach,

and this is created
by the newspapers.

Let me read you
a couple of headings here.

"Louis Bee, a half breed,

is deliberately shot and killed

by an insane Indian
named Slumach

at Lillooet Slough."

[Narrator] The reports say
after the cold-blooded murder,

Slumach was sentenced to die,

and on January 16, 1891,

he was hanged
for the killing of Louis Bee.

"Deliberate murder
by an Indian at Pitt River."

Huh?

[Taylor] Back then,

First Nations people
were portrayed as savages.

Indigenous people
have been stereotyped

throughout history.

Slumach has been depicted

as this sort of
cartoon character.

[Narrator] The Slumach legend

plays on plenty of cliches--

a bloodthirsty warrior,

magical powers,

and a curse.

When you read
those newspaper articles,

you will find one thing
in the early days.

There is no mention of gold
at all.

Gold is born much later.

I could not find
any newspaper references

mentioning his name
specifically with the gold

until 1914.

[Narrator] The article

published
in the Stevens Point Journal

appeared over two decades
after Slumach was hanged.

Gold comes later in the story.

[Taylor] He argued
with the man he shot,

but there was no mention
that it was over gold.

If this legend is a lie,

and there's no actually gold
out there,

like, what are we doing?

[Narrator]
On the Mamquam Icefield,

high above Pitt Lake...

[Adam] You gotta be careful
going through here.

[Kru] Roger dodger.

[Narrator] ...Adam and Kru
are crossing the glacier

in search of landmarks
from the Jackson letter,

clues that could lead
to his stashed gold,

and to its source,

Slumach's mine.

[Adam] We're looking for
Walter Jackson's three peaks

and his tent-shaped rock,

but this won't be easy,

and we have to cross
this glacier first.

The most difficult part
of the journey

is actually crossing
the headwall of the glacier.

They consist
of massive ice falls

that drop down
a thousand metres

to the valley floor.

[Kru] Sketchy!

You can't quit.

I just kept the motivation
of seeing those peaks in my mind

that, "Okay, at least
we're onto something,

and we're going the right way."

[Adam] Kru's never been
on a glacier before.

He's never crossed
a crevasse field.

I think he's
out of his element.

You're going to
have to climb up that ice.

[Kru] Seriously?

[Adam] Yeah.
It's our only way up.

-Coming down here?
-All right.

[Kru] We're doing things
I've never done before.

[Kru] Is it doable?

[Adam] Gonna find out.

[Narrator] Curse or no curse,

it's clear
the Mamquam has the ability

to swallow the unprepared.

[Kru] We don't know

exactly how many people
went out there

and didn't come back.

Some say 20, some say 50.

I say if one life
doesn't come back, it matters,

and especially if it's mine.

You can't mess up.

This is real life.

You're going to fall,
and you're going to get hurt,

and ain't nobody gonna help you.

You're out
in the middle of nowhere.

Whoa...

[Adam] Kru thought
he was going into a minefield,

and literally, he kind of was.

Oh...

Actually, wait a minute.

What is it?

Uh, we got
a huge fracture line.

[ice crumbling]

I can literally
hear this thing moving.

[Narrator]
The milder spring weather

makes accessing
the Mamquam possible,

but it also makes the melting
and shifting glacial ice

much less stable.

[Adam] The fracture line
is, like, right here.

[Kru] Let's talk about it
at the bottom.

[Adam] I think we can
jump over that crevasse

and just get around
this minefield.

[Kru] Oh,
that does not look good.

This is starting
to push those limits.

[Narrator] The detour
will force Adam and Kru

up a sheer wall of ice.

Oh, boy, Adam...

[Narrator]
...testing Kru's abilities

and determination.

Let me know when you're ready.

You're good.

[Kru] You can't quit.

You're already in it.

You have to push through it.

It doesn't matter if it's scary,

it doesn't matter
if it's dangerous.

I'm going to jump across.

[groans]

[Adam] You got it.

[grunts]

Whoa.

[Kru] One false step,
one false move,

for me, it's scary.

I don't need to die.

Whoa.

I'm at my limit right now.

Good job, you got it, Kru.

Come on.

[Kru] What am I gonna do,

stay out on the glacier
all night by myself,

or get over this wall?

Nice. Good stick.

You're at the top,
come on, you got it.

Stick it.

[grunts]

Well done.

[Kru groans] We did it.

[breathing hard]

Did you just pull off
your first ice climb

on the glacier?

[chuckling]

-See?
-First of many.

Told ya I'd get you up here.

I know. I trust you.

[breathing hard]

[Adam] I was extremely
proud of Kru.

Now I'm confident
that he can do it,

and he knows himself
he can do it.

[Narrator] The reward,

a clear view
of their target destination...

[Adam] See that?

Those three peaks right there.

[Narrator] ...the three peaks

described
in Walter Jackson's letter.

If there's any sort of
gold mine or mineralization,

it's going to be it right there.

How the hell are we gonna
get over to those peaks?

We follow the ice.

We don't want to drop down
into that valley.

That valley's a nightmare.

Let's get off this glacier.

[Narrator]
The terrain ahead is solid.

[Adam] That's the way.
Go straight across.

[Narrator]
But they will need to find

the Jackson Letter's
next clue...

-[Adam] Smooth sailing.
-[Kru laughs]

[Narrator]
...a tent-shaped rock

where Jackson stashed his gold,

a landmark on the path
to Slumach's motherlode.

[Kru groans wearily]

[Adam] We got it.

[Narrator]
Two and a half kilometres

above sea level...

[Kru sighs]

Whoo-hoo!

Watch out, Adam!

[Kru laughing]

[Adam] You almost took me out.

[laughing]

[Narrator] ...Kru and Adam
have successfully made it

off the glacier,

toward a mountain range

that matches the description
in Walter Jackson's letter...

and possibly the gold.

[Adam] See,
what did I tell ya?

It's worth travelling
across that glacier.

[Kru] Well, as long as
there's gold in here,

it's definitely worth it.

[Kru] I'm thinking, "Damn,
if we made it this far,

we can make it that far,"

and very few people
have done it before us,

so let's do it.

[Narrator]
The unearthed letter

and the old photos

have guided them
to this spot.

There you go.

There's your three peaks.

[laughing]

Oh, my god, I can't believe
we're actually here.

[Adam] Yeah, three peaks.

One, two, three.

Right in the middle,
boom, gold canyon.

You know what's crazy
is then...

tent-shaped rock's
right there.

Wow!

At the bottom of the valley,

we see a tent-shaped rock,

and three peaks
lining up perfectly,

exactly as he described
in the letter.

It actually lines up.

-Three peaks and the tent.
-It looks good, yeah.

[Narrator]
It's the scene laid out

in Jackson's deathbed letter.

Loaded down with too much gold

to pack and haul
out of the mountains,

he stashed
all that he couldn't carry

beneath the three peaks,

under a tent-shaped rock.

[Adam] Get out
your metal detector.

[Kru] Gold fever is one thing.

Packing gold out
is a whole 'nother.

If I'm Walter Jackson,

that's where
you would bury the gold,

so you'd always remember it.

That's what you use
as a landmark.

Either it's going to be
around the perimeter,

or it's going to be
down underneath some rocks.

This is what
I've been waiting for.

Let's get in there.

You can get
to the ground over here.

-Yeah?

Yeah, come bring it down
right in here.

[detector beeping slowly]

[Narrator]
The handheld detector

transmits
an electromagnetic field

that identifies metals,

including gold.

[device beeps]

[Kru] I'm getting
nothing but iron here.

-Let's check them all.
-Oh, definitely.

We're here, let's do it.

[beeping slowly]

[Adam] Anything in there?

[Kru] Just getting iron hits,
that's about it.

Check in there.

[beeps slowly]

Nah, that's too small.

I mean, if there was gold,

this thing would light up
like a Christmas tree.

[Narrator] If Jackson's gold
was buried here,

at some point
over the last century,

someone may have
already found it.

[Adam] If a letter states

that there's gold buried
under a tent-shaped rock,

that would've been
the first thing

people looking for
this lost gold mine

would've found.

It doesn't mean that
the motherlode is not there.

I don't want to waste time
looking for a legend

that he supposedly left some,

when we know
there's a mineral vein up there

that's looking so promising,

and if he was pulling
that much gold,

he's getting it
from that spot right there.

[Narrator] Even if
Jackson's stash is gone,

the source of his find
should still be nearby.

[Adam]
Looking at these three peaks,

right in the middle of them

is this massive mineralization

that's literally crumbling away.

So why waste time
looking for his

when we can go and actually
look for the lode itself?

Let's go get the lode.

[Narrator]
But reaching the vein

won't be easy.

[Kru] That's a huge-ass climb.

When you push through,

and you push through,
and you push through,

you expect a break.

There's no breaks.

[groaning]

All right, let's go get it.

It's worth it for gold.

It's a long way up.

[Narrator] Back in Vancouver,

Taylor is in pursuit
of any evidence

that supports the truth
behind the Slumach legend.

Right now, I've got
more questions than answers.

I want to put the newspaper
articles behind me.

I need to find
a voice I can trust.

[Narrator] Taylor has a lead

on someone
with firsthand knowledge

of Slumach and his life.

[Taylor] In my research,

I've uncovered tapes
of an interview

that was done years ago

with a woman
named Amanda Charnley.

"My father, Peter Pierre,

of the Katzie
Indian Reservation..."

Amanda Charnley's father,
Peter Pierre,

knew the real Slumach.

I'm going to see
if I can reach out

and talk to any
of Amanda's current family,

but this is amazing,

a voice straight from the past.

[Narrator] 20 miles northwest

of the head of Pitt Lake...

[Kru] It's got
some nice mineralization.

[Adam] Yeah.

[Kru] You can see it
the further up we go.

[Narrator] Adam and Kru
are following quartz and iron,

mineral indicators of gold,

upward toward
Jackson's three peaks...

[Adam] Oh yeah, that's
where we gotta check out.

Whew! Wow.

[Adam] Straight down there.

[Narrator]
...but the trek up

was the easy part.

I'll use my 55 metre.

That'll give us enough
to get that ledge.

[Adam] If this peak has
gold-bearing ore,

you need to actually
get a sample of it.

[Narrator] The crumbling area
over the edge

will give them the best shot
at detecting gold.

To get a sample of this,
you know,

you need to go on the face.

[Kru] It's, like,
all bustin' away.

How are you going
to get down there?

We'll rappel down.

-I'm not going to walk.
- You'll rappel down.

[Kru laughs]

[Kru] I don't know
what motivates this man,

but he does things

that most normal people
will not do.

[Kru] You seriously think
that's gonna work?

[Adam] 98% sure.

Okay, at least
you're being honest.

I'll take the gun.

Here you go, captain.

Careful,
that's 40K in your hand.

[Narrator] The handheld
XRF spectrometer

uses x-ray technology...

[Kru] There you go.

[Narrator]
...to detect, analyze,

and I. D. minerals at a glance.

It's like having
a piece of the future

in your hand.

Bombs away.

-Whoo!
-Little windy out.

[Adam]
See that wind take the rope?

[Kru] Yup.

Just don't let it take you, man.

All right, be safe.

[Adam] Gotta protect this gun.

[Kru] And yourself, bro.

[Narrator] It's a 200-foot drop
to the ice field below,

and a bumpy ride down.

[Kru] My fear is he gets
too comfortable out here.

Like, to be honest, I get it,
he's done this.

It's like,
"Oh, no big deal," you know,

but at the end of the day,
a rock is a rock,

a fall is fall,
a death is a death.

We're gonna get these samples
and get home safe.

[exhales deeply]

You should see
all those crystals here.

[blowing]

The geology in here
is pretty neat.

It's got vugs of crystals
in the side of this wall.

[Narrator]
It's another good sign

of the kind of mineralization
linked to gold.

I just have to go down
a little further.

[Narrator] But with Adam
over the edge...

What's going on
with this rope?

[Narrator]
...it's on Kru to keep watch.

This is sketchy as it gets.

-Whoa!
-Watch out, watch out!

-[rock tumbling]
-Watch out!

-Whoa.
-Watch out, watch out!

-[rock tumbling]
-Watch out!

My god!

We almost just started
a rock slide, bro.

You okay?
-Yeah, it's good!

[chuckles]
That was [bleep] close, man.

You can't even relax
a second out here.

Sometimes you do it so often,

and you become complacent.

You just think
"Oh, it's just another rappel."

At the end of the day,

nothing is worth your life.

I just have to go down
a little further.

[Kru] Obviously he's got to be
a little bit shook,

but he didn't stop,
he didn't quit.

You know, he kept doing
what he had to do,

and he got it done.

Yeah, I got a good spot here.

Cross your fingers, man.

Let's get some gold
out of this.

Walter Jackson pulled gold
outta the dirt out there.

Dick Carter came back

with a pan full of gold
and nuggets.

[Narrator]
The clues in Jackson's letter

appear to line up.

Three peaks,

and a tent-shaped rock.

Could this be the source

of Slumach's
legendary lost gold?

Come on, man.

You're killing me
with suspense here.

Very rarely
do you get to feel the...

and the anxiety,

and anticipation
for something, you know?

Is it looking good?

Iron.

Lots and lots of iron.

[exhales deeply]

Magnesium, calcium.

-No gold.
-Nothing?

Nope.

[Kru] Oh, boy.

Everything
but the frickin' gold.

Hurry up and get up here, man.

This is not Jackson's
secret gold source.

[Kru] It sucked.

It sucked
not coming out of there

with pockets full of gold,

but it doesn't mean we're done.

But at least we know now
with our own eyes

that this isn't that area
that we're looking for,

so just to be able
to mark something off

is a big step
in the right direction.

Now I'm addicted.

[laughs] Now I don't care
where it's at.

[laughing]

Let's get out.

[♪♪♪♪♪]

[Narrator] Back at the team's
Seabird Island base...

Okay.

[Narrator] ...Taylor
is checking out the new find,

hoping to learn
something concrete

about Slumach's life.

[Taylor] This is history

coming directly from someone
that's First Nations.

I'm just like, wait,

did I just really hear that?

So there is gold?

So Amanda said

that her father heard
directly from Slumach

where the gold mine is.

Slumach actually found gold.

Hearing it
from Amanda Charnley,

it's validation.

This is absolutely incredible.

[Narrator]
The team's first expedition

hasn't led to the motherlode...

but this voice,

connected to Slumach himself,

says the mine is real...

so if there's fact
in the legend,

the team
will continue the search

to find the gold,

and uncover the truth.

[Taylor] We're only just
skimming the top of this thing.

There is something out there...

and we can find it.

[Narrator] Next time...

In the ring of the mountains,
you're gonna get hit.

[ice crunching sharply]

The mountain's
always gonna win.

If it doesn't command
your respect,

something will happen to you.

I like to get gold.

I don't like
to not get gold.

There's some big clues
in this footage.

We're on the right path.

[Kru] Whoo! Making my heart beat
a little bit faster.

The most treacherous terrain
in British Columbia.

Oh boy.

-Whoa-ho!
-Things got crazy.

Quartz vein in here.

Oh, my god!

This feels very real.