Over the Edge Death in Grand Canyon eBook Michael Ghiglieri Thomas Myers
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Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders.
Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensive history of Canyon misadventures. These episodes span the entire era of visitation from the time of the first river exploration by John Wesley Powell and his crew of 1869 to that of tourists falling off its rims in Y2K.
These accounts of the 550 people who have met untimely deaths in the Canyon set a new high water mark for offering the most astounding array of adventures, misadventures, and life saving lessons published between any two covers. Over the Edge promises to be the most intense yet informative book on Grand Canyon ever written.
Over the Edge Death in Grand Canyon eBook Michael Ghiglieri Thomas Myers
We were there when Jody Mack fell into the river in 1983. It was a journey of mixed emotions, as we had such a blast in the canyon, and yet of the 31 of us who walked down into the canyon, only 30 of us climbed back out. Jody had made the dire mistake of trying to touch the river water from a slippery slab. We never knew whether Jody's body had been recovered or lost forever. This book answered that question. Mother Nature is not to be trifled with, and this book is a sobering reminder of that.Product details
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Over the Edge Death in Grand Canyon eBook Michael Ghiglieri Thomas Myers Reviews
An amazing book, that I originally bought out of love for the Canyon (and a bit of morbid curiosity), this should be required reading for anyone who wishes to enter the canyon..or deep in any desert environment, for that matter. Incredible resource for keeping yourself alive in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Well written, entertaining, and at times heartbreaking. I read the bulk of it (it's quite large) while sitting at Toroweap, and realized I had already made a few mistakes outlined in this book. Buy it, you'll be glad you did.
IF you like being scared by reading actual eyewitness accounts of terrifying events, this is the book for you. It is a no holds barred look at the unbelievable stupidity and just plan bad luck of people who travel to the Grand Canyon from around the world to enjoy it wonders... and sometimes fall off the edge, get struck by lightning, eaten by bears, dive into rivers without noticing the waterfall a few feet away, or wander off the trail and are never seen again.
Almost every single death is because of the incredible witlessness of people who read signs, listen to rangers and then instantly do the very thing they were warned NEVER TO DO.
The events are fleshed out with the back story around it, and the end of each chapter has a list of the date, time, place and name of all the people (to date) who have died of that cause. The first chapter leaps right in with accounts of people who fell off the edge of the Grand Canyon. There are hundreds of people who HAVE to climb the barrier to get the perfect shot (because being a foot closer to the edge than anyone else is so cool..), and did not live to tell the tale.. Amazing as it is almost unbelievable, People have backed their cars OFF the cliff edge while parking, left their children in a running vehicle without putting it in park or setting the brake, "for just a second" and had to watch as their car and children went over the edge of a thousand foot drop, or just gunned it and went all Thelma and Louise into space....You begin to get the feeling that some people should never go anywhere, because they have zero common sense or instinct for self preservation. The book does go into the fact that we live in a fairly sanitized society, and the Disneyland syndrome, of thinking that everything is happy and safe for us because it IS A PARK, also applies to the wilderness.
There are also chapters on murders and suicides in the park, and of employee mishaps going back to the 1800s, which I thought was intensely fascinating. The indians who lived in the canyon, and who were driven out of it, also did their part to erase some early tourists from the face of the earth, and i honestly couldn't blame them, although some accounts are pretty shocking. Altogether it is a must read for anyone who loves trivia, startling their friends with weird tales or just wants to know, "what happens when someone falls off the edge". This book gives you the real story.
Like most readers, I bought a copy of this book for after seeing it EVERYWHERE for sale at The Grand Canyon. After watching people taking ridiculous risks at the South Rim, I couldn't resist reading a book about all the times those risks didn't pay off.
The opening sections are absorbing, covering all those rim fall deaths over the years. My only surprise, based on what we saw in our visit, was that there weren't more in this section. The book then moves through all other varieties of death below, above, and over the rim. Some sections were more interesting than others, but for the most part, it was fascinating reading, and I found myself stopping regularly to read parts to my husband.
The authors' goal is not ghoulish. It is to alert Canyon visitors to the fact that this is a dangerous place. We live in a highly protected society. People sue councils and home owners if they trip over a slight fault in a footpath. As the authors point out, this safe and largely secure environment is not The Grand Canyon. The authors state that visitors to the Canyon tend to think that they wouldn't be allowed to do the riskier things (such as the river tours) if they could get hurt. This attitude is wrong.
This book is highly recommended for anyone who has visited the Canyon. Although we only visited the South Rim for the night, I was able to clearly "see" where many of the things in the book took place. I would also recommend it to anyone planning to visit The Grand Canyon, particularly if they want to hike below the rim. Forewarned is forearmed.
My husband took me this past Sept. to the Grand Canyon. WOW is all I can say. We have been married 47 yrs, he has wanted to take me to see this miracle of nature all these years. I was so taken back from the awesomeness of it all. I decided to order this book to read about the mishaps that has taken place over the years of tourists and visitors that have lost their lives at the Grand Canyon. The author did an excellent job in writing this book. The Grand Canyon is so beautiful, yet so dangerous at the same time.
We were there when Jody Mack fell into the river in 1983. It was a journey of mixed emotions, as we had such a blast in the canyon, and yet of the 31 of us who walked down into the canyon, only 30 of us climbed back out. Jody had made the dire mistake of trying to touch the river water from a slippery slab. We never knew whether Jody's body had been recovered or lost forever. This book answered that question. Mother Nature is not to be trifled with, and this book is a sobering reminder of that.
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