There's a great book compiling all the Grand Canyon deaths: https://a.co/d/09qGmU0C https://a.co/d/09qGmU0C I read all the chapters on the hiking and falling d

There's a great book compiling all the Grand Canyon deaths: https://a.co/d/09qGmU0C https://a.co/d/09qGmU0C I read all the chapters on the hiking and falling deaths before I hiked rim-to-rim. So many of them are "Family hikes down to the canyon, young child complains of heat. Sits down and dies." Or "Someone takes a shortcut, walks down an un-climbable hill. Dies of exposure." There were a lot of completely unprepared tourists on the way up to the South Rim. They had walked down a little bit and couldn't walk back up. We weren't in great condition ourselves but we had been hiking for the past 12 hours.