I recently spent four days hiking in and around the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. While there a friend passed this book to me. Man?s indomitable need for adventure is the only thing more impressive than the awesome power of nature and the brilliance of technology described in this lovingly rendered retelling of one of the most remarkable events ever to occur inside the Grand Canyon.
In 1983, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, a confluence of unlikely events provided three unique characters with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the fastest to ever race through that singular marvel in a rowboat. Powerful and poetic passages put readers inside the adventurers? boats, even if they have only ever imagined the Grand Canoyn or seen it in pictures. ?Every mile or so, the walls opened and gave way to yet another side canyon filled with secret springs and waterfalls,? he writes. ?The air was alive with pink-and-lavender dragonflies that paused, twitchingly, on the shafts of their suspended oars.? Each piece of the extensive back story is pu together as lyrically as the epoch-spanning walls of the canyon itself and as assuredly as the soaring concrete face of its dams.
If you love adventure like me, you'll love this story
In 1983, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, a confluence of unlikely events provided three unique characters with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the fastest to ever race through that singular marvel in a rowboat. Powerful and poetic passages put readers inside the adventurers? boats, even if they have only ever imagined the Grand Canoyn or seen it in pictures. ?Every mile or so, the walls opened and gave way to yet another side canyon filled with secret springs and waterfalls,? he writes. ?The air was alive with pink-and-lavender dragonflies that paused, twitchingly, on the shafts of their suspended oars.? Each piece of the extensive back story is pu together as lyrically as the epoch-spanning walls of the canyon itself and as assuredly as the soaring concrete face of its dams.
If you love adventure like me, you'll love this story