Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon

Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders.

Two veterans of decades of adventuring in Grand Canyon chronicle the first complete and comprehensi…

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