Walk in the Park

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Journalist Kevin Fedarko joins photographer Pete McBride in an audacious attempt to walk roughly 750 miles through the Grand Canyon, following a largely pathless route from end to end. Fedarko begins dangerously unprepared, and the expedition—completed in stages over more than a year—subjects both men to punishing heat, dehydration, injury, and terrain that defeats ordinary ideas of distance. Their ordeal becomes the spine of a broader investigation into the canyon’s human and political landscape, including Indigenous history, mining, dams, tourism, and development schemes pressing against protected land. Blending adventure narrative with environmental reporting, the book asks what it means to know a place whose beauty, danger, and contested history continually exceed the view from its rim.

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