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Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders.Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensive history of Canyon misadventures. These episodes span the entire era of visitation from the time of the first river exploration by John Wesley Powell and his crew of 1869 t
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Jan 28, 2009Benny rated it really liked it
This is one of those books you see in the gift shop at Grand Canyon NP, and you think 'yeah, that might be interesting.' It is absolutely riveting. Basically, it is a chronicle of every known fatality that has happened in the park. While that sounds kind of morbid, due the authors in depth research and great story telling ability, each incident takes on a life of it's own. It is a must read for anyone who would venture below the rim on foot or in a boat down the Colorado. The lessons learned her..more
this made me want to visit the grand canyon.. very, VERY carefully.
Feb 13, 2014Sesana rated it really liked it
This can kind of be viewed as a companion volume to Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, despite being by different authors. They're both the same basic concept: this is how everybody who died in the national park died. Which is ever bit as morbidly fascinating as you might imagine. What struck me in relationship to the Yellowstone book is that, although the causes of death are quite different, the thought processes that lead to them are remarkably simila..more
Sep 21, 2011Catherine rated it really liked it
I borrowed this book from the library prior to a trip to the Grand Canyon a few years ago- I found it interesting and a good warning to be careful when I was there (and was preaching to my husband and my children the whole time.) Crazily enough, we ended up witnessing a man falling to his death that same trip (N. Rim- Bright Angel Point), and the warnings of the book were really driven home. They were selling it at the gift shop when we were comfort shopping after the incident (shock does weird..more
As an outdoor adventure enthusiast, I thought it might behoove me to read this book. The take-away lesson is that the overwhelming preponderance of deaths and other mishaps are the result of poor judgement or a lack of knowledge. Some of these matters are no brainers, such as guard rails with warning signs. Others are easily learned, such as the amount of water you need to hike when the temperature is over 100 degrees, or the fact that hiking back out of the canyon at the end of the trip is much..more
Mar 16, 2012Marie rated it really liked it
I picked this book up in the gift shop at the Grand Canyon, and call me morbid, but I really enjoyed it. I'm just glad I read it AFTER I had left! Divided into sections on how people have ultimately met their demise at the Grand Canyon, this book is packed with interesting, historical and often grisly stories. The section on people accidentally falling over the edge was probably the worst for me, as often times their family members were standing right there. (I also have a slight fear of heights..more
Not sure why I didn't review this before. I read it years ago. The story I remember the most is the idiot that was a practical joker who 'pretended' to fall off of the wall of the rum as his daughter was walking by. She thought he was joking, and he was, but he didn't understand physics and terminal velocity. This will have to be a re-read sometime in the future. It was a good one.
Apr 26, 2016Frank rated it liked it · review of another edition
A fascinating book about all of the known deaths in the Grand Canyon. Overall a good read though I struggle between giving it three stars or four stars. The good chapters are really good, even great. Sometimes however, the authors drag certain stories out or include long stories that don't result in death and they don't add to the book but may even detract from it. The longest chapter covering drownings in the Colorado river was for me the least interesting. The authors repeatedly gave the cubic..more
May 21, 2013Cathy rated it really liked it
Being a somewhat paranoid person when it comes to edges and my children, I am glad I read this book AFTER our vacation to the Grand Canyon. Which I just have to say was amazing - it is one of the most beautiful places on earth! Just stay on the trail and watch your step and drink lots of water! This book is completely fascinating and full of crazy, sad, shocking, scary, and amazing stories about death in the Grand Canyon. Truth is definitely stranger than fiction! I learned so much, for example,..more
This was an excellent read, if not a little morbid. Definitely recommended before and during a trip to the Grand Canyon as it gives a good insight into how tourists foolishly take for granted that nature can kill you. Plenty of stories and statistics that help you plan your journey better, especially in regards to the amount of water you need to take should you decide to do any hiking below the rim. Further, it demonstrates how easily one's common sense can disappear when facing one of the wonde..more
I bought this in the gift shop at the Grand Canyon. I found it such a great book. The stories were very riveting and some of them quite sad. Perhaps the saddest ones were the deaths that could have easily been avoided. I think the huge tourist presence at the Grand Canyon gives people a sense of security that can give them false confidence and make them disregard the real dangers of traveling and hiking in and around the area. The book gave me a new respect for nature and reminded me that there'..more
Well-written and researched and for some who fell in love with the Canyon and its grandeur at first sight, it was a great read. It is not great because of the gory details -- and there are plenty -- because of what it teaches you about survival generally and in the Canyon. Plus, the final chapter is a captivating one discussing the various murder mysteries that have bloomed from the Canyon and which may never been definitely settled.
I learned much from my solo, overnight hike into Grand Canyon t..more
After reading this, it appears to be safer not visiting the Grand Canyon. Between falls, floods, the river, etc. , it's seems looking at a picture is the way to go. Seriously, the book is about the many ways people have died while exploring or visiting the beautiful Grand Canyon back to the 1800's. It was an interesting book.
Mar 29, 2017Melinda rated it really liked it Shelves: 2017, worth-owning, american-history, non-fiction, biography, education, adventure, history, real-life-adventures
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I'm always looking for books when we travel, picking up local histories and maps and such. This turned out to be one of the best travel books we've ever gotten. Grim, yes, but amazing nonetheless.
After witnessing some incredibly stupid behavior while we were in Grand Canyon, behavior that thankfully did NOT result in a fatal fall, it was sobering to read about those who did fall and die. (or drown and die, or hike and die, or crash and die) There aren't alot of funny stories in this b..more
Mar 09, 2018Belinda rated it it was amazing · review of another editionI'm always looking for books when we travel, picking up local histories and maps and such. This turned out to be one of the best travel books we've ever gotten. Grim, yes, but amazing nonetheless.
After witnessing some incredibly stupid behavior while we were in Grand Canyon, behavior that thankfully did NOT result in a fatal fall, it was sobering to read about those who did fall and die. (or drown and die, or hike and die, or crash and die) There aren't alot of funny stories in this b..more
Shelves: non-fiction, human-stupidity, accidents, kindle
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I'd already read Death In Yellowstone and had downloaded the Kindle preview for this book. I took a look it one afternoon and quickly purchased the entire book so I could finish it off. I've now managed to find a copy of the third book in this trilogy - Death In Yosemite - that will ship to Australia for a reasonable price, so I'm looking forward to reading that one too.
Books like this appeal to my interest in the morbid, and also in the assurance that mother nature is indifferent to us. If we a..more
Books like this appeal to my interest in the morbid, and also in the assurance that mother nature is indifferent to us. If we a..more
I learned a lot from this book that could come in handy in a survival situation. What I di learn is that many of the deaths that happened at the Grand Canyon could have been totally avoided if people were not acting recklessly. So the most important thing for survival is to not do stupid things.
Being in the outdoors is an uncontrolled environment. The weather can change in an instant, the surroundings can change, and there are no guarantees that you won't get caught up in it.
But as a general r..more
Being in the outdoors is an uncontrolled environment. The weather can change in an instant, the surroundings can change, and there are no guarantees that you won't get caught up in it.
But as a general r..more
Every known fatality in the Grand Canyon, up until 2017. Having just visited both the north and south rims, I expect there will be an updated edition in a few years. The stupidity I witnessed is astounding! As the authors state at the end of each chapter, the great majority of deaths are due to human recklessness and stupidity, and usually happen to men. After reading every single chapter of this book (except for the one on plane crashes), I have a great respect for the bravery and skill of the..more
This was a fascinating read. It never delved into becoming morbid or graphic. The book is an accounting of how deadly the Grand Canyon has been over the years. Each death reads like an historical account, and goes into the reasons of the tragedy.
Anybody who has seen the Grand Canyon knows the awestruck viewpoint of looking out across the rim. This is a fascinating look at the Canyon itself and what makes it so deadly. The facts of the incidents are clearly stated as well as what factors played..more
Sep 28, 2018Book Concierge rated it it was ok · review of another editionAnybody who has seen the Grand Canyon knows the awestruck viewpoint of looking out across the rim. This is a fascinating look at the Canyon itself and what makes it so deadly. The facts of the incidents are clearly stated as well as what factors played..more
Shelves: arizona, nonfiction, nature, library, concierge
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The subtitle is all the summary anyone needs: Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World’s Seven Natural Wonders. And the cover adds to this by showing skeletal remains and a mid-air collision. The authors recount all the fatalities occurring in the canyon area, from falls off the rim, to flash floods, to drownings, to murders, and yes aircraft mishaps.
In the interest of full disclosure … a couple of years before we met, my husband went on a Colorado Rive..more
Nov 27, 2013Wendy rated it it was amazingThe subtitle is all the summary anyone needs: Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World’s Seven Natural Wonders. And the cover adds to this by showing skeletal remains and a mid-air collision. The authors recount all the fatalities occurring in the canyon area, from falls off the rim, to flash floods, to drownings, to murders, and yes aircraft mishaps.
In the interest of full disclosure … a couple of years before we met, my husband went on a Colorado Rive..more
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'Forewarned, it is then up to the personal responsibility of each of us to avoid killing ourselves--and thereby also avoid tacitly accusing the wilderness of being our murderer.. Forewarned enough, perhaps we and our vanishing wilderness will both survive.'
Five stars? Yes. Full disclosure: I'm a member of my local search & rescue organization. This may have influenced my rating just a tad. Uniformed people in the desert/mountains make up the majority of our calls, and I wish we could make t..more
Five stars? Yes. Full disclosure: I'm a member of my local search & rescue organization. This may have influenced my rating just a tad. Uniformed people in the desert/mountains make up the majority of our calls, and I wish we could make t..more
I would never have read this book had I not recently visited the Grand Canyon. Everyone knows the appearance of the Grand Canyon from photographs but to actually see it in person is an extraordinary experience. I wandered along the south rim for several days gazing into its depths at the incredible rock formations, and feeling my duration on earth insignificant in the scale of the many millions of yeas that the Canyon took to form.
With such thoughts in mind when I came across this book, I was un..more
With such thoughts in mind when I came across this book, I was un..more
The authors conscientiously fulfill the claim of the title in documenting every known death in the Grand Canyon, a natural curiosity when one visits this dizzying abyss. The text is moderately well written, although I found I needed to reread some descriptions of circumstances for clarity, and needed more editing for several typos, and use of the word 'Eskimo.' (cringe) I enjoyed the descriptions and explanations, as well as the discovery the majority of demises could be attributed to stupidity..more
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[P]osing for or taking photographs account for 6 and 4 victims (20 percent) of the 50 total victims of accidental lethal falls from the rim.
Another fatal factor is nightfall. Six other victims – five of them males – fell at night while camping or walking alone. A possible culprit in many of these fatalities may be the male urge to urinate off high places combined with dizziness (and possibly alcohol consumption). Other male victims likely have fallen to their deaths from heights within..more
[P]osing for or taking photographs account for 6 and 4 victims (20 percent) of the 50 total victims of accidental lethal falls from the rim.
Another fatal factor is nightfall. Six other victims – five of them males – fell at night while camping or walking alone. A possible culprit in many of these fatalities may be the male urge to urinate off high places combined with dizziness (and possibly alcohol consumption). Other male victims likely have fallen to their deaths from heights within..more
The researcher in me required that I purchase this huge tome in the midst of my recent exploration of the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon. If you think the canyon is just a big hole in the ground visible from space, think again. It draws all manner of people--the stupid, who fall into space while peeing, joking around, running when they should be walking, and the like; the demented (see the section on murders and suicides); the swimmers who couldn't or underestimated the river's power (..more
Feb 10, 2017Tracy St Claire rated it really liked it
This book is more interesting than it sounds. It lives up to its promise of detailing the details of every known death in the Grand Canyon since we have been keeping records, and relating when the parks department thought those records were not relevant and either did not collect them or threw them away.
The strange thing about this book is the way the author(s) tried all through the book to draw statistical conclusions when the sample size was, even as a reader I could see, way to small to suppo..more
The strange thing about this book is the way the author(s) tried all through the book to draw statistical conclusions when the sample size was, even as a reader I could see, way to small to suppo..more
Almost forgot to add this one to my Goodreads list.
I was fortunate enough to visit Grand Canyon National Park in October of 2011 with friends. We hiked rim to rim over five days with a grand total of fifty plus miles hiked in temperatures ranging from over 100* on the second day of our hike to a low of 40* on the final morning when we reached the south rim. Snow was falling as we dropped our packs and headed for the nearest restaurant for the first good meal in five days.
To impart a little wisdo..more
I was fortunate enough to visit Grand Canyon National Park in October of 2011 with friends. We hiked rim to rim over five days with a grand total of fifty plus miles hiked in temperatures ranging from over 100* on the second day of our hike to a low of 40* on the final morning when we reached the south rim. Snow was falling as we dropped our packs and headed for the nearest restaurant for the first good meal in five days.
To impart a little wisdo..more
Aug 03, 2015Jamie Collins rated it liked it
An interesting book, and just as described: an accounting of every death in the Grand Canyon National Park between 1889 and the publication of this book in 2001. The authors are Ghiglieri, and experienced whitewater rafter and a former park river ranger; and Myers, an accomplished hiker and physician who treated many injuries received in the park.
Each chapter is dedicated to a particular kind of fatality, and the book begins with the most interesting stuff. First there are the falls - like peopl..more
Sep 05, 2007Rebecca rated it really liked itEach chapter is dedicated to a particular kind of fatality, and the book begins with the most interesting stuff. First there are the falls - like peopl..more
Recommends it for: anyone planning a trip to the Grand Cyn
While the topic of this book might seem morbid, it really is a fascinating and instructive set of essays on human behavior. Well-researched and engaging, this revised and updated edition recounts stories of what most often amount to tragic tales of sheer human stupidity.
What really resonates most strongly is the authors' desire to communicate that the Grand Canyon is not some man-made, man-controlled theme park, but instead a heartbreakingly beautiful and very dangerous natural phenomenon, to be..more
What really resonates most strongly is the authors' desire to communicate that the Grand Canyon is not some man-made, man-controlled theme park, but instead a heartbreakingly beautiful and very dangerous natural phenomenon, to be..more
This book is surprisingly interesting because it is not just a catalog list of every person who has fallen over the edge, but because every death is recounted like a miniature story. The book is a gripping account of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders.
It is also somewhat humorous because you get an insight as to the lack of intelligence of some people. Seriously, some tourists simply don't have any common sense. If anyone related to someone who has di..more
It is also somewhat humorous because you get an insight as to the lack of intelligence of some people. Seriously, some tourists simply don't have any common sense. If anyone related to someone who has di..more
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May 21, 2013Karen rated it it was amazing
I bought this book back in 2011 when my family and I went on an Auto Club Rails-to-the-Rim Grand Canyon vacation. It took me awhile to finish this book but it was so worth it. Death, death and more death! Well, actually there were many stories where no one died. I was fascinated with these deathly tidbits especially the ones dealing with falling from the rim into the canyon. I also really enjoyed the last chapter on murder at the canyon. I paused several times to look up most of them on the inte..more
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Michael P. Ghiglieri grew up at Lake Tahoe, Nevada as the great grandson of a Forty-niner, served as a US Army platoon sergeant during the Viet Nam era, then earned his Ph.D. in Ecology in 1979 from the University of California at Davis for his pioneering research on wild chimpanzees in Kiable Forest, Uganda. In addition to teaching university courses in primate behavior and ecology and in human e..more