In "A Walk in the Park," Fedarko prompts readers to consider the history of the area's Indigenous people and the injustices imposed upon them by the state.
Looking east through a dawn wildfire haze, the Grand Canyon Village sits on the South Rim (right) of Grand Canyon National Park. First protected as a game preserve by President Theodore Roosevelt, the 1,904-square-mile park was finally created in 1919. The Bright Angel Trail is seen descending 4,380 feet from the million-year-old Kaibab Formation to the 1.6-million-year-old Zoroaster Granite on the river.
Snowflakes envelop Kevin Fedarko, his best friend Pete McBride and a stalwart trio of their companions as they inch across Grand Canyon’s Owl Eyes Bay, a remote and exposed set of hollowed out orbs that give the escarpment its name. One misstep on the snow-sheathed soil or icy, tilted slabs of rock and they will plunge 400 feet into the abyss. They have three hours of daylight left to cross the formation. They are also out of food.
It would not be too much of a spoiler to reveal that Fedarko and McBride survived Owl Eyes Bay, despite a few heartstopping wobbles. In fact, they survived the entire length of the Grand Canyon, an approximately 800-mile trek retold in a National Geographic documentary, three photo books by McBride and most recently, in Fedarko’s “A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon.�
In "A Walk in the Park," Fedarko prompts readers to consider the history of the area's Indigenous people and the injustices imposed upon them by the state.
Looking east through a dawn wildfire haze, the Grand Canyon Village sits on the South Rim (right) of Grand Canyon National Park. First protected as a game preserve by President Theodore Roosevelt, the 1,904-square-mile park was finally created in 1919. The Bright Angel Trail is seen descending 4,380 feet from the million-year-old Kaibab Formation to the 1.6-million-year-old Zoroaster Granite on the river.
THE FLAG LIVE STAFF & BRISA KAROW,
Editor in Chief at the Lumberjack
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FLAG LIVE STAFF & MARLEY GREEN,
The Lumberjack Editor in Chief
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