GCC Book Club: A Walk in the Park
Join Kevin Fedarko for a discussion about his new book, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon.
- October 3, 2024
- 5:00PM–6:30PM MST
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Join us for a virtual Book Club event with Kevin Fedarko, author of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon. From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, A Walk in the Park is a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America’s most magnificent national park and the grandest wilderness on earth. The tale narrates the odyssey Fedarko and his best friend Pete McBride undertook to transect the entire length of the Grand Canyon, a feat billed by the handful of experts who have managed to complete it as “the toughest hike in the world.”
The discussion and Q&A will be moderated by Rich Rudow, a Grand Canyon Conservancy board member who helped advise Fedarko and McBride throughout their journey and even joined to help the two friends complete one of the most challenging sections of their thru-hike. Rich will be asking Kevin questions submitted by our live audience, as well as a few of his own.
While we encourage reading the book before the event, it is not required. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon is available for purchase on GCC's website.
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, as well as 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, and a trio of his adventure stories from the Himalayas, the Horn of Africa, and the Colorado River are anthologized in The Best American Travel Writing. Fedarko’s first book, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon, won the National Outdoor Book Award and the Reading the West Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. He lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona.
About the Moderator
Rich Rudow is a Grand Canyon adventurer who fell into the abyss at age 25 on a rafting trip his wife gave him as a gift. Thirty-four years later, he has yet to escape the magnetic pull of exploration in the vast remote areas of the National Park. In 2015, he became one of the few people to traverse the length of the Grand Canyon, staying beneath the rim deep inside the three-dimensional maze for 57-days before successfully emerging near Lake Mead. Eight years ago, Rich picked up a professional camera determined to vividly showcase the remote beauty of the Grand Canyon in order to inspire more Americans to protect the place. After more than 1,300 days exploring below the rim, he has become one of the foremost experts on the Grand Canyon backcountry.
