The investigative teams, in order to learn as much as they could about the trail and the historical mysteries it could unravel, followed its entire route, opening up sections that had been lost to years of vegetation overgrowth.
「八通關」原是玉山的土名。據高山族鄒族的傳說，他們的祖先本居住在玉山之巔，稱之為 Pattonkan。