Only about a dozen people are known to have traveled by foot between Haines and Skagway.
Six residents who made the mountaineering trip Jan. 31 likely set a record, making it from Lutak to Dyea in 40 hours by swimming across the Ferebee River and stopping for just four hours’ sleep.
The trip also is significant for apparently being the first made in winter, and the first including women, said longtime mountaineer Paul Swift. “They…
