Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon

[rachelmanija]

I am browsing a book on accidents in the Grand Canyon, blurbed by Tony Hillerman. It combines apparently solid reporting with extraordinarily melodramatic asides. I just now hit the section on incidents involving venomous creatures (very rare) which says people's fears of them are overblown and they shouldn't think of them as "death-slaves of the Grim Reaper."

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

Comments

[carbonel]

I recently spent a few days at Glacier National Park, and one of the bookstores had a book about all the deaths that had occurred in the park (something like 268 of them).

I hadn't previously realized this was an entire subgenre.

[kore]

Oh hell, there are places like Yosemite that will sell you books about the murders that have occurred there.