The Pass is traversed by national road DN12A [ro], which connects Ghimeș and Palanca, in Bacău County.

During World War I, there were sustained battles between Romanian and Austro-Hungarian forces for control of the Ghimeș-Palanca Pass.

He was found and arrested by a patrol of imperial officers; tried by a military court on a charge of desertion and espionage, he was sentenced to death and executed by hanging.

The protagonist in Forest of the Hanged, a 1922 novel by his brother Liviu Rebreanu, is influenced by his experience.

In 2012, a monument in Emil Rebreanu's memory was unveiled at the border between Ghimeș-Făget and Palanca, around the place where the hanging is believed to have occurred.