A Walk in the Park

by Kevin Fedarko

  • Scribner
  • 2024
  • ISBN: 978-1501183058
  • 512 pages
  • WorldCat
A Walk in the Park
About the Book

A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be "a walk in the park." Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had completed the crossing billed it as "the toughest hike in the world." The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined--and came within a hair's breadth of killing them both. ebook icon Audio book icon

Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature | Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times 
Kevin Fadarko
About the Author

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, and a senior editor at Outside, where he covered outdoor adventure. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications.

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