I was invited as a guest aboard the Queen Elizabeth for a journey from Vancouver along the coast of Alaska as far as the Hubbard Glacier and back.
It included a call into Skagway which I last visited when filming Operation Gold Rush several years ago. Back then we followed the Chilkoot trail retracing the steps of the 100,000 people that stampeded into the Yukon during the goldrush of 1898 and spent some time digging for gold outside Dawson City just as they had done in the Klondike a century before (albeit with a large production team to help!).
It was wonderful to tell the story of that adventure again and brought back lots of very good memories - although I was grateful that this journey involved far more cake and cocktails than the previous visit…
