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Title: Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon by Michael P. Ghiglieri, Thomas M. Myers ISBN: 0-9700973-1-X Publisher: Puma Press LLC Pub. Date: 25 May, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.46 (37 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly entertaining and well written
Comment: I came to this book with fairly low expectations, but I was bowled over by the information and the well-written style. This reads like a fictional thriller, yet every story is true. I think if you enjoy the Grand Canyon, you'll love this book!
I visit the Grand Canyon several times a year to do rim-to-rim-to-rim hikes in successive days. That's 48 miles and 12,000 verticial feet elevation gain, so it's a brute. Being on the trail for 10 hours in one day lets me see hundreds of people on the Kaibab and Bright Angel Trails. It never ceases to amaze me to see the amount of unbelievably unprepared people trying to hike in this grandest of canyons.
When you hike in the Grand Canyon, you cross six distinct climactic zones. You have to have a lot of physical and mental endurance to truly appreciate the wonders of the canyon. It can kill you if you don't, please heed the warnings here and on the signs in the canyon itself! So many people venture down on a lark in high heels. They suffer on the way back up. Don't let this happen to you.
This book is simply superb, each chapter is divded up into various dangers, whether white-water rafting, hiking, and especially, the heat. If you're looking forward to a Grand Canyon adventure, you won't find a better book. I've read it twice because it's just riveting. Enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must Read for all Canyon Visitors
Comment: In January 2004, we hiked down the S. Kaibab trail to Phantom Ranch and up the Bright Angel Trail three days later. I heard of this book while at Phantom Ranch, but didn't read it until I got back. I had a lot of respect for the Canyon and NPS personnel before and while hiking, but reading this book trippled it. It is gruesomely interesting reading the details of the sad and sometimes extremely stupid ways people have lost their lives at the Canyon. It gave me more respect for the dangers of Nature, and made me think about some of the not-too-smart things I did while hiking which could have landed me in a future edition of the book. I definitely recommend this book to all who are going to the Canyon or have previously hiked it before.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you liked Into Thin Air...
Comment: You'll love this. It's as gripping as Into Thin Air or The Perfect Storm. The same kind of morbid curiousity and appetite for the fascinating details will keep you turning pages all the way through this book. The stories are truly amazing--you cannot make this stuff up! It's not a novel--there is no plot with a beginning and a climax and an end, so I'm puzzled by criticism that it's slow in parts. I guess some people were more entertained by certain stories than others. I enjoyed them all. One would think that breaking the tales into categories by type of death would make the book choppy, but the stories actually flow beautifully as they weave in and out of each other and sometimes circle back right into each other. And the authors tell the tales with a humorous twist that makes the entire book a delightful read. I also learned much more than I ever expected to learn about the history of the Canyon and the Colorado River and their pioneers. The book made me, like another reviewer, want to go back to visit the sites where such amazing adventures took place. And if I'm ever in trouble, would you please send the heroic Ranger Wisher?
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Title: Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey ISBN: 1570980217 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Sunk Without a Sound : The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde by Brad Dimock ISBN: 1892327988 Publisher: Fretwater Press Pub. Date: 21 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Death, Daring and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks by Charles R. Butch Farabee ISBN: 1570982023 Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Canyon by Michael P. Ghiglieri ISBN: 0816512868 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Hiking Grand Canyon National Park by Ron Adkison ISBN: 1560445661 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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