Photographer
Pete McBride, who took this rare and remarkable photograph, hiked with magazine
writer Kevin Fedarko and former Grand Canyon ranger Amy Martin along 650 miles
of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, a feat accomplished by very
few. Here Ms. Martin watches a winter
sunrise over a section of the Colorado called Conquistador Aisle. She is standing atop the Esplanade formation
near Fossil Canyon looking northeast.
To get to
this overlook, it took the hikers seven days of hiking for ten hours a day
without the benefit of trails. To date
this section of Grand Canyon National Park remains one of the most inaccessible
parts of our nation.
Because no
trails exist along 95 percent of the canyon’s North Rim or along 80 percent of
its South Rim fewer people have now hiked the canyon’s length in a single trip
(10) than have walked on the moon (12).
An article by
Fedarko with McBride’s photographs documenting their journey will appear in the
September 2016 issue of National
Geographic magazine.
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