How do you not check on your running/hiking/walking partner, when you know it’s hotter than hell and you’re changing the plan?!? He leaves a note at her hotel saying that he didn’t make it to the river, but he didn’t check to make sure she did? I know there are many people who would be that stupid, but please give your audience some credit.

The guy that said nothing is a idiot he should have said something she might have lived

Well done, the warning and story. But why so many inages that have nothing to do with the current story? Does that bother any one else? This is not meant to be at all negative. Just an observation.

so rare to find a narrator who BREATHES these days. thank you

After hiking in Death Valley in August, I think I'll go hiking in Antarctica in July.

I went once anyone who runs the Grand Canyon is insane.

To prevent more deaths, park authorities can set restricted areas or exclusion zones.
Those areas where deaths occured should no longer be accessible to visitors.

Me and two friends drove from Iowa City in June one summer in the 80s to the GC. We hiked down from the south rim to a point the overlooked the Colorado River. It was 7 miles one way. We only had one canteen of water and no salt tablets. We did take some slim Jim’s. Anyway going down wasn’t bad. Going back up it was a lot hotter. I was walking faster than my two friends so I left them with the canteen and went on ahead. I made it up to the top, walked to the car and drank 5 cans of coke me and ate a bunch of cookies with m&m’s in the them. I needed the calories. My friends both made it up about 30 minutes after me. One of them said he vomited on the way.

Margaret Bradley's mistake was going hiking with a jackass who left her to die in the canyon.

I’m wondering why people don’t walk down in the early morning, rest until the heat has passed, then walk back in the cool of the early evening: better still, camp overnight and walk back up in the cool of the next day’s early morning. Seems crazy to me to walk up and back in the heat of the day - hot enough to kill someone.

Thank you for this valuable information. I wish people would realize their limitations. If I ever visited the canyon, I would go to the Bright Angel and South Kaibab trailheads and proudly proclaim: "I am going to carry no water or food, and I am going to hike this trail to the river." Then I'd walk five steps down and five steps back up to the rim. Yeah, the trail goes to the river. Doesn't mean I EVER would!!! 😂

most deaths occur to those that hike hottest hours and don’t br
ing enough water and electrolytes

DEATH VALLEY ARIZONA? GEEZ, AI. Maybe A.U.

so just one question   why don't they just closed the trail????

Tips for surviving a Rim to River to Rim ( S. Kaibab down / Bright Angel up) day hike in the Grand Canyon : Carry lots of food with salt, sugar, and energy - at least to last an extra 1/2 day; Carry a large water bladder in your pac, at least 2 liters to last the hike down S. Kaibab ;  Carry a water filter - you will need to refill at least a couple times at the river and above; Carry extra ELECTROLYTE mix for water refills - you should not drink only water - you must replace electrolytes lost through your sweat,  or mix a proper sport drink with your water.   On my hike I mixed Carbo Force with my water, and drank an occasional Gatorade while licking grain salt ;  During the heat soak your clothes and hat with water from the river and water taps to keep cool.   I hiked this route in late June in peak 120º temp in 12 hours with no major difficulty, applying these tips.   It is important NOT to hike up S. Kaibab since there is no water available and the trail is openly exposed to the sun all day long.   Bright Angel is the better route up, since it has available water and shade in late afternoon.   Plus, Bright Angel ends your hike at the Visitor Center and parking lot so you don't need to ride a bus back to your car.

Obviously You've never been In GCN otherwise you would not call Indian Garden, Havasupai Gardens!
Havasupai or to be precise Supai is about 100kms west of GCN village, a tiny indian village midway between the rim and the Colorado. The Supai creek goes all the way thru to the river with multiple cascades pluging in beautiful travertine pools. It is the only Indian community living inside the official limits of Grand Canyon National Park. A hike there is extremely expensive today consequence probably of the numerous devastating Flash Floods the  place encountered those last years. I've been there four times spending four to five days camping, the last time in May 2007.
Indian Gardens is the first camping stop under the South rim some 5 miles after nearly 1000m descent on the Bright Angel Trail. You need a permit to overnite there. From Indian Gardens you can go on down the Bright Angel to the Colorado passing the point of the Great unconformiity clearly visible on the left  cliff by the trail not far from Indian Garden. It shows clearly how two layers of sediments and rocks are one avbove the other but with an age difference of more than 1.2 billion years of sediment missing!The layers are not oriented the same way. On the left of Indian Garden you have a trail which leads to Plateau Point overlooking the Colorado and before reaching the rim, on your left you have the crossing of the West Tonto Trail going to Hermit rapid and the Hermit Trail which trailhead is Hermit's rest on the south rim.
Again before giving advice one should be sure of knowing what the subject is. Yes GCN can be rewarding but it requires fitness, cautiousness, humility and a hike there cant be done in one day return and certainly not in the summer when it becomes a real oven. It requires preparation not only to get permits and equipment, but also to understand what you are going to see on the 10 to 15 miles of yout descent in that Majestic and Dramatic place probably unique of the occidental part of the planet.
Never forget that 2.5 billion years watch you and if you act stupidly take revenge to be disturbed: that revenge is called death.
Between 1990 and 2007 I've hiked there some 800kms. It was a huge slap on my face and changed my perspective on life. A friend of mine former director of the Grand Canyon Field Institute said of me to a french journalist asking  if french hikers used to come there: "Yes we have an eccentric french man from Paris who hikes every year and has become addicted to the canyon you may contact him in Paris'. I was interviewed by this lady working for the Figaro Magasine. I told her what I felt when I was in my beloved canyon. Sometimes by the river at Hermit rapid, the emotion so great before this beauty, I begin to cry! It's stupid! I know...When I read her paper all she had kept of her trip and my interview was that the El Tovar Hotel was on the south rim and pretended that one could face cobras inside the canyon on trails!!!!! I had lost one hour for such a stupid woman, whose only interest on life is a five star hotel!

This is the Grand Canyon 😊

There was 2 of us guys and 2 chicks, we’d thought it would be a blast to get wasted and sprint down the Grand C. I lost track of them right off. Down the trail no problem  but going back up is hell. With no backpack and just sports shoes. 45 degree angle, right switch back then left switchback, right then left, up up up for now and ever more   . Finally when I got to the very top, the very last slope of the trail, I could barely crawl even one more foot .  And I did it when I was 17. I did not see any other people or donkeys or anything but after a few minutes of light drizzle, there came a sound like a semi tractor pulling a hay wagon down the trail, flash flood. Barely got out of the way did not see another person but if I had I have a feeling they would have ignored me and rode on

Why are youtubers now adding these rising spark things to their videos? They are distracting and annoying and a stupid idea. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks so.

Keep begging for people to "buy a superthanks so people see your comment" makes me not want to see your channel again.