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

by Kevin Fedarko

It dawned on me then, for the very first time, that perhaps it may not be necessary to hump a fifty-pound backpack across almost eight hundred miles of the park’s most remote and inaccessible reaches to touch the magic of this place—and that although such an approach can yield some exquisitely sublime moments of wonder, it may well be possible to have a briefer but equally authentic encounter with that magic.