A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

by Kevin Fedarko

This is what astronomers call celestial vaulting, the revelatory effect produced by the rushing awareness of two opposing impressions: the sudden apprehension of the vastness and the depth of the heavens, combined with the arrival of a moment of understanding that transmits, in a single burst, the tininess and the insignificance of earth as well as everything that moves or breathes upon its surface.

all trails that appear to lead away from the place you’re from will eventually circle back and drop you where you began in a manner that might, if you are attentive and very lucky, enable you to see it clearly for the first time.