Description
From considered one of Outside mag’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the exciting real story of the quickest boat experience ever, down all the duration of the Colorado River and in the course of the Grand Canyon, all over the mythical flood of 1983.
In the spring of 1983, large flooding alongside the duration of the Colorado River faced a crew of engineers on the Glen Canyon Dam with an extraordinary emergency that can have led to probably the most catastrophic dam failure in historical past. In the middle of this predicament, the verdict to release a small picket dory named “The Emerald Mile” on the head of the Grand Canyon, Simply fifteen miles downstream from the Glen Canyon Dam, appeared now not Simply abnormal, however downright suicidal.
The Emerald Mile, at one time slated to be destroyed, used to be rescued and taken again to lifestyles by means of Kenton Grua, the person on the oars, who supposed to make use of this flood as one of those hydraulic sling-shot. The objective used to be to nail the all time document for the quickest boat ever propelled—by means of oar, by means of motor, or by means of the grace of God himself—down all the duration of the Colorado River from Lee’s Ferry to Lake Mead. Did he live to tell the tale? Simply slightly. Now, this exceptional, epic feat unfolds right here, in The Emerald Mile.
