The Climb Was the Only Gold — Gold Rush Country Song | "The Climb Was the Gold" | Radio Drifter

The gold came and went. The climb never left him. "The Climb Was the Gold" is an original honky-tonk ballad from Radio Drifter — warm shuffle, weeping steel, and the story of an old man looking back on the year he climbed the Chilkoot Pass in the Klondike gold rush. Most of them never struck it rich. But half-frozen on that mountain, carrying a dying man and sharing one tin of beans between three, he was more alive than he's ever been since — and he's spent his whole life climbing down from it. Part of The Bonanza Creek Saga. 🎙️ KWES — painted songs for the long way home. 🎵 Original song, written and produced by Radio Drifter. Not a cover. For everybody who didn't know they were happy 'til it was a long way behind them.