The Grandest Canyon Ever
The good news for those who many not yet have visited America’s Grand Canyon is that it inarguably lives up to all its hype. No matter how exaggerated that hype may sound.
What a truly massive physical experience standing on its southern rim is! You peer down into what seems an impossible distance, only to realize that the vast span between you and the bottom of this awesome rent in the earth actually masks the true gargantuan size of boulders which present themselves at all levels — impressive though they may already seem! A huge boulder halfway down the abyss is likely the size of a cathedral. The band of colored rock outlining a sub-canyon wall across may well be twenty stories in height. The proportions take time to fathom.
This is a Nick Yates travel experience not to be missed if you’re traveling the American southwest.
For those of an even more adventurous nature, the trails leading down into the canyon from its rim can offer the chance to confront the limits of your own physical and mental stamina. The most challenging have you edging along meter-wide pathways with shear rock walls on one side and shear drops to eternity on the other. And no guard rails to interfere with your personal destiny should you choose to step carelessly. A Nicholas Yates tip for grand canyon trekkers: Do make sure you’re well rested and alert prior to setting out on any but the most gentle of Canyon hikes!
Whatever the Grand Canyon’s original Spanish explorers must have thought of the place when led there by natives, one doubts that even the recorded gasps of astonishment fully convey the surprise at the Grand Canyon’s grandeur — nor the urgency with which they must have longed to communicate news of this natural wonder’s existence.
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