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04355aim a22005417i 4500 001 A413C656390111EF921F5BD751ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240703010044 007 sd fsngnnmmned 008 240429s2024 nyunnnn z n eng d 020 $a 9781797169590 020 $a 1797169602 020 $a 9781797169606 035 $a (OCoLC)1432107187 040 $a TEFMT $b eng $e rda $c TEFMT $d TEF $d BLACP $d OCLCO $d LJW $d SILO 043 $a n-mx--- $a n-usp-- $a n-mx--- 050 4 $a F788 $b .F37 2024ab 082 04 $a 917.91/3204 $2 23/eng/20240430 100 1 $a Fedarko, Kevin, $e narrator. $e narrator. 245 12 $a A walk in the park $h [cd book] : $b the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon / $c Kevin Fedarko. 246 30 $a True story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Simon & Schuster Audio, $c [2024] 300 $a 12 audio discs (approximately 870 min.) ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 143000 500 $a Title from web page. 511 0 $a Read by the author. 520 $a A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be "a walk in the park." Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed the crossing billed it as "the toughest hike in the world." The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined, and came within a hair's breadth of killing them both. They struggled to make their way through the all but impenetrable reaches of its truest wilderness, a vertical labyrinth of thousand-foot cliffs and crumbling ledges where water is measured out by the teaspoon and every step is fraught with peril, and where, even today, there is still no trail along the length of the country's best-known and most iconic park. Along the way, veteran long-distance hikers ushered them into secret pockets, invisible to the millions of tourists gathered on the rim, where only a handful of humans have ever laid eyes. Members of the canyon's eleven Native American tribes brought them face-to-face with layers of history that forced them to reconsider myths at the center of our national parks, and exposed them to the impinging threats of commercial tourism. Even Fedarko's dying father, who had first pointed him toward the canyon more than forty years earlier but had never set foot there himself, opened him to a new way of seeing the landscape. And always, there was the great gorge itself: austere and unforgiving but suffused with magic, drenched in wonder, and redeemed by its own transcendent beauty. 651 0 $a Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) $x Description and travel. 651 0 $a Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) $x Description and travel. 600 10 $a Fedarko, Kevin $x Travel $z Grand Canyon National Park. $z Grand Canyon National Park. 600 10 $a McBride, Peter $c (Photographer) $x Travel $z Grand Canyon National Park. $z Grand Canyon National Park. 651 6 $a Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.) $0 (CaQQLa)201-0375269 $x Descriptions et voyages. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0375269 651 6 $a Colorado (Col.-Mexique : Fleuve) $0 (CaQQLa)201-0375269 $x Descriptions et voyages. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0375269 650 7 $a TRAVEL / Special Interest / Hikes & Walks. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a TRAVEL / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY). $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Travel writing. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Livres audio. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000202 655 7 $a Récits de voyages. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001117 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240703011501.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A413C656390111EF921F5BD751ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search