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The narrative then expands into an interview and story of explorer Kevin Fedarko and photographer Pete McBride, commissioned to bushwhack the canyon, detailing blistered feet, near-darkness, determined pacing, injury setbacks, and the rare sense of triumph after completing a demanding journey from rim to river.","AUGUST 2026  \nESTA BLIS HED 1925  \nT H E O U T S I D E W O R L D  \nEDITOR’S LETTER By Robert Stieve  \nThe freezing rain was blowing sideways at Yaki Point. It was cold, and things got worse on the South Kaibab, which was covered with a thick layer of black ice and shrouded in soupy fog. Hiking the trail was like tiptoeing down a bobsled track with your eyes closed, knowing that any misstep might send you over the edge. The conditions were rough, but in the outside  \nworld, we play by Mother Nature’s rules, and the gauntlet she threw down that day was a powerful reminder that it’s important to be prepared. We were. We had rain gear, MICROspikes and extra socks.  \nMy brother Jeff and his two boys had flown in for the rim-to-river loop. We took it slow through the Chimney, a series of tight switchbacks at  \nthe top, and made it to Ooh Aah Point without any slips. By then, the ice was giving way to slush and mud. At Cedar Ridge, we decided to lose the MICROspikes. Like the Donner Party deciding to “take a shortcut,” it was abad idea. Five minutes later, I heard a pop, like a champagne cork, and dropped to the muddy ground. It would be days before I’d learn that I’d torn my ACL and fractured my tibial plateau. There was some pain, and we still had about 15 miles to go, but I was determined.  \n“When everything goes  \nKevin says.“Pete and I—I think it’s fair to say—were not only utterly and completely unprepared for the challenges … we were comically unprepared. We had no knowledge of what this takes.”  \nIn Episode 31 of the Arizona Highways Podcast, host Steve Goldstein and I talked with Kevin about his journey.  \ndid wish that I was going to die.”He didn’t. They didn’t. And after  \neight separate trips over the course of 14 months, Kevin Fedarko and Pete McBride joined an exclusive club of explorers who have hiked the length of the Grand Canyon. They did it in sections. Even fewer have done it as a thru-hike, meaning nonstop from Lees Ferry to the Grand Wash Cliffs. Kenton Grua was the first, in 1976. Thirteen years earlier, Colin Fletcher made it through when the park boundary was much smaller. Still, he’s on the list. Jonreed Lauritzen is not. He never tried. Nevertheless, he was an intrepid explorer and one ofour best writers.  \n“Mr. Lauritzen can tell a story and tell it well,” Wallace Stegner said.  \nThe storyteller made his debut in Sep-  \nwrong,” Yvon Chouinard said,“that’s when adventure starts.”For Kevin Fedarko, it started  \nLooking upstream from Toroweap Overlook at sunrise (left). John H. Riffey (right), who served as Toroweap’s ranger from 1942 until his death in 1980, takes in a view of the Grand Canyon.  \nalmost immediately on his big  \nhike. He and photographer Pete McBride had been commissioned by National Geographic to bushwhack the length of the Grand Canyon. Only a few people had ever done that. For good reason.“The topography of Grand Canyon is probably the most shattered and broken and fragmented piece of landscape that we have anywhere in North America,”  \n“What was the first point of this trip that you thought you might die?” Steve asked with a straight face.  \n“The first part,” Kevin said.“I didn’t necessarily think that I was going to die, but I wished I was going to die. That probably occurred within the first 72 hours, by which point the bottoms of my feet had so many blisters, it looked as if somebody had taken a belt sander to my feet. I really  \ntember 1940 with a piece about Toroweap, an isolated backcountry location on the North Rim.“I stood on that brink alone, the evening of my descent into the gorge, and I tell you it is an experience no one should want,” he wrote in Toroweap: The Night of the Gods.“It does something to you. It pulls the corners of your eyes down tight, it draws your lips into a straight line, it dries your throat and puts  \n2 AUGUST 2 0 2 6  \na grip of steel on your insides. 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