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

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[melita66]

Also in the genre, Accidents in North American Mountaineering, which is published every year. It includes dissections of what went wrong and how to avoid the problems.

My dad had most of the deaths-in-national-parks books. He'd worked in the parks as a young man, then for the US Forest Service and vacationed in them. Then he discovered the mountaineering accidents reports and would have me find them (because he wasn't on the internet).

[kore]

....now that sounds kinda fascinating. Are they online?