grand canyon

"Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Descending carefully, he and his team picked their way across deep crevasses and through the deadly Khumbu Icefall; when the mountain was finally behind him, Erik knew he was going to live. His expedition leader slapped him on the back and said something that would affect the course of Erik's life: 'Don't make Everest the greatest thing you ever do.' [This] is Erik's response to that challenge. It is the moving story of his journey since descending Mount Everest: from leading expeditions around the world with blind Tibetan teenagers to helping injured soldiers climb their way home from war, from adopting a son from Nepal to facing the most terrifying reach of his life: to solo kayak the thunderous whitewater of the Grand Canyon"--Provided by publisher.

"Erik Weihenmayer is the first and only blind person to summit Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. Descending carefully, he and his team picked their way across deep crevasses and through the deadly Khumbu Icefall; when the mountain was finally behind him, Erik knew he was going to live. His expedition leader slapped him on the back and said something that would affect the course of Erik's life: 'Don't make Everest the greatest thing you ever do.' [This] is Erik's response to that challenge. It is the moving story of his journey since descending Mount Everest: from leading expeditions around the world with blind Tibetan teenagers to helping injured soldiers climb their way home from war, from adopting a son from Nepal to facing the most terrifying reach of his life: to solo kayak the thunderous whitewater of the Grand Canyon."--Publisher.

Michael Ghiglieri writes of his seventeen years as a professional river guide in the Grand Canyon.

A memoir in which the author recalls a ten-day trip he took to the Grand Canyon with his son, Brandon, and long-time friend and guide Malcolm, to celebrate Brandon's entry into adulthood, and to explore what it means to come of age.

In watercolor sketches accompanied by text, the author records his impressions of the Grand Canyon.

Draws from diaries and journals to tell the story of the 1869 expedition led by Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell to explore the Grand Canyon.

In watercolor sketches accompanied by text, the author records his impressions of the Grand Canyon.