Hiking Grand Canyon end to end: Hear how 2 adventurers did it
More than 4,000 people have climbed Mount Everest. Only a dozen have walked the length of Grand Canyon in one push.
Few people have hiked the length of Grand Canyon. Fewer still have done it all at once.
Last year, Rich Rudow and Chris Atwood completed that walk, taking thousands of photographs in the process.
Atwood and Rudow will share their photos, and the story of their trek, at "The Grandest Walk: A 57-day 700-mile end-to-end traverse below the rim of Grand Canyon." The event is at 7 p.m. Aug. 22 at Granite Reef Senior Center, 1700 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale.
"More than four thousand people have summited Mount Everest," Rudow writes in a blog post about his adventure. About 250 have completed the "triple crown" of hiking — the Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail and Appalachian Trail.
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But only a dozen people have "walked the length of Grand Canyon in one continuous push."
"Why? There are no towns for resupply, no base camps for logistics support, and in fact, no trails for the vast majority of the 700 miles. Traversing Grand Canyon is like walking a complex three-dimensional maze with delicate routes that include hundreds of thousands of vertical feet of scrambling."
Atwood and Rudow will join Kevin Fedarko for another talk at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 at Cline Library on the campus of Northern Arizona University, 1001 S. Knoles Drive in Flagstaff.
Fedarko will discuss threats to Grand Canyon during his talk, which is being sponsored by the Grand Canyon Trust, Sierra Club, and Arizona Trail Association.
Details:arizonamountaineeringclub.org/?events=amc-monthly-member-meeting-visitors-are-welcome-30, grandcanyontrust.org/grand-canyon-end-end.