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Summary: Required Reading for any visitor to Grand Canyon
Review: The authors of this book give you an honest look at the danger that exists in Grand Canyon. I found this book easy to read. There were enough details provided to give you a clear picture of the events that were unfolding. The book is broken into chapters that each deal with a different type of danger that visitors face. I could not believe the amount of people who fail to prepare for hikes into the canyon by having enough water!Every National Park visitor should be required to read this book so that the avoidable mistakes that are so common can be avoided. I was amazed to learn that so many people die in Grand Canyon because they do not take the proper precautions. This book kept me interested until the last page. The authors provide useful tables on fatalies at the end of each chapter.
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Summary: Horrible book!!!!!!!!1
Review: The book Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon was very dull, and dead! It started out really slow. The beginnin was terrible! The middle was horrible! The end was horrible also! The whold book was very, very pointless! The book was gawky and said the same thing over and over again! NO one should read this book! I believe that this book is lifeless! If you liked this paragraph, and if it was easy to read, then you will enjoy the book Over the Edge: Death in the Grand Canyon, becuase this is as horrible as the book!
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Summary: Cruel Beauty
Review: The Grand Canyon is certainly one of the most beautiful, awe inspiring places on this earth. I have visited the Canyon 7 times. On my most recent trip I purchased this book the day after my friend and I completed our 5th rim to rim (in a day) trek. After reading this marvelous account I now realize how many potentially fatal mistakes we have made through the years.
This book is extremely well written and has many of the qualities of a page turning thriller. The authors are quite knowledgable and bring their passion for the material to the page. Some of the middle chapters lag but all in all it is a very good read.
I will return to the Canyon and enjoy it's awe insiring beauty, and challenge myself on it's demanding trails but I will do so with a healthy sense of caution and respect.
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Summary: Alarmist Fear-Mongering, But Well-Researched!
Review: There is very little purpose for this book other than to create and capitalize on fear. People who are considering hiking in the Grand Canyon would be much better served by reading other, less expensive things -- like signs, NPS brochures and websites. Most people who have hiked or flown over or come within 100 yards of the rim without wetting their pants, know and understand how vast and unforgiving the Canyon can be. That leaves the truly stupid and truly scared as this book's audience -- and the former either can't or won't read it. The scared, however, well, to quote P.T. Barnum, there's one born every minute. For them, and those who need any excuse to justify staying indoors, it's a fine scientific accounting of the recorded deaths in the Grand Canyon (if you count plane crashes at the airport -- in town -- as such) over the years. But really, that's all. It offers little true advice to hikers or visitors that common sense wouldn't already instill. The lists at the end of each chapter serve as a comprehensive list of deaths in the canyon, from which some lessons can be learned. For that reason alone, it gets one star. Don't get sucked in by fear or voyeurism and purchase (or read) this book.
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Summary: Over the Edge
Review: This book is a must read for anyone planning to venture into the Grand Canyon. It chronicles every known death in the canyon and on its rims. Morbid? Perhaps, but the book's real aim is to keep you the reader from making the sorts of decisions that have led to hundreds of people's deaths.The fatal incidents are grouped into categories: falls from the rim, falls within the canyon, heat/dehydration, drowning, etc. Some cases are covered in just a sentence or two; others are described in riveting detail. It's a hard book to put down. Having made 15 backpacking trips into the canyon, most of them a week long, I figured I knew everything there was to know about safe and sensible behavior in the canyon. But even for me this book was a real eye-opener. For someone going to the canyon for the first time or the hundredth time, "Over the Edge" just might be a life-saver.
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Summary: Over the Edge
Review: This book is a must read for anyone planning to venture into the Grand Canyon. It chronicles every known death in the canyon and on its rims. Morbid? Perhaps, but the book's real aim is to keep you the reader from making the sorts of decisions that have led to hundreds of people's deaths. The fatal incidents are grouped into categories: falls from the rim, falls within the canyon, heat/dehydration, drowning, etc. Some cases are covered in just a sentence or two; others are described in riveting detail. It's a hard book to put down. Having made 15 backpacking trips into the canyon, most of them a week long, I figured I knew everything there was to know about safe and sensible behavior in the canyon. But even for me this book was a real eye-opener. For someone going to the canyon for the first time or the hundredth time, "Over the Edge" just might be a life-saver.
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Summary: Look Ma! No Hands!
Review: This book is insightful and while not required reading for a trek to or thru the Grand Canyon, certainly worthwhile to realize the inept misfortune or sheer bad luck several hundred visitors have experienced while above, over or below the rim. It amazes me how many humans dare to tempt fate with nature on any level or in any circumstance but we as a species, have a daring thread of a death wish apparently and in the case of this book, that thread is shreaded and literally torn apart. Tales of accidents, water miscues, poor footing, harsh and unpredictable weather, extreme heat, falls of several hundred feet to a thousand or more are common and little did I realize the canyon on more than one occassion was utilized as a tool for suicide. A rather effective one at that. Contrary to the readers from WI who shared their sentiments on this book, I never over estimate the pride, ego, desperation or stupidity of our brothers and sisters. Thus for me, the book confirms what I've believed all my life as an outdoorsman: people really do not comprehend nature or it's beauty and dangers. I enjoyed the book!
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Summary: Fascinating!
Review: This book really held my attention! Very intriguing stories, and some valuable lessons learned too.
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Summary: Over the Edge, Not Over The Top
Review: This book should be required reading for all who plan on hiking the Grand Canyon. It has been some years since I hiked the canyon, and I wish I had the opportunity to read this book beforehand. This book is fascinating in its description of the myriad ways in which persons have met their untimely, and occasionally timely, demise in the canyon. The research is meticulous, the authors obviously careful in their craft and knowledgeable of their subject, but most important for the reader the final product is simply fascinating. The concrete examples of wilderness misadventure in Over the Edge are the perfect companion to the fictionalized accounts of outdoor death Peter Stark's Last Breath, and they should be read together.
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Summary: Must Have GC Book
Review: THIS BOOK WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE..... If you are planning or are an avid hiker of the Grand Canyon then this book is a must...beginner and experts alike. Not only does it explain the mistakes of these peoples, but it warns the reader and even teaches the reader basic desert canyoneering through these many descriptive narratives. A very good read; entertaining...will keep you up at night!!! Remember, "there are never new accidents, only new people having the same old accidents..." Highly recommend!
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