Over the Edge. Death in the Grand Canyon

**OC Richard** · 15th October 12, 05:37 AM

A co-worker vacationed at The Grand Canyon a couple years ago, and read that book in preparation!

She said the book was fascinating. (For example a surprising number of people died peeing over the edge.)

At The Grand Canyon, as she was riding on a mule as it ambled down that amazingly narrow path on that amazingly vertical canyon wall, looking 1,000 feet straight down, she kept saying to herself over and over, mantra-like "no one has ever died on the mules... no one has ever died on the mules..."

So glad you aren't going to be in a future edition!!

Another co-worker almost became a statistic at Yosemite, doing Half Dome at night and getting utterly lost.

**SeumasA** · 15th October 12, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

"no one has ever died on the mules... no one has ever died on the mules..."

My wife is convinced she'd be the first.

**Chase** · 16th October 12, 01:04 AM

Glad you're ok Bro

**Barb T** · 16th October 12, 09:49 AM

I bought this book for my husband when I was out in Flagstaff last summer, and he says it's an amazing book!

**Canuck** · 16th October 12, 11:24 AM

So was this your attempt at breaking the sound barrier in a kilt?

**Pleater** · 17th October 12, 09:27 AM

you might have to consider the posibility that you were born to hang - that looks to have been a fairly close call......

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**tundramanq** · 17th October 12, 10:39 AM

Ron, You are going beyond the call of duty to get us great pictures. Both of them!

Does make me wonder about the Z-Coils? Foot issues or not, I have enough fun in the rocks staying unscared with regular sneakers.

**Alan H** · 17th October 12, 01:55 PM

Crikey..... I get stomachaches looking over gigantic dropoffs, from too close... like the cliff on Mt. Whitney.

**O'Callaghan** · 17th October 12, 06:16 PM

I've been there and looked down into it just once. That's enough for me. I'm not fond of heights, although I seem to be OK if I'm in a plane. I'm glad you didn't get to be immortalised in print, Ron.

**AJBryant** · 23rd October 12, 10:08 PM

Holy Hazel, Ron, don't DO stuff like that!

Glad you're still in one piece, though, and have an interesting anecdote about it. You'll get drinks in bars for years out of that one. "Did I ever tell you about the time I almost fell into the Grand Canyon?" "What, did you not see the big hole in the ground?" "Buy me a drink and I'll tell you." ...