During the previous century and a half, more than eight hundred people have perished inside the canyon, making it one of the deadliest national parks in the country. With so many fatalities, an entire book has been devoted to the subject. Entitled Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon, it is packed with gruesome details about not only the 43 boaters who drowned in the river, the 88 victims of suicide, and the 138 pilots and passengers killed in air-tour accidents involving helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft, but also the 202 visitors who have met their deaths on foot while hiking—often in
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