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Loper was rowing his self-built boat, The Grand Canyon, through 24½ Mile Rapid in the Marble Gorge of the Grand Canyon on July 8, 1949, when he became unresponsive and his boat flipped in the rapid. River historian Otis "Dock" Marston speculated Loper, with his perilous heart condition, was most likely dead before the boat flipped. [5]
An 80-year-old man has died after falling from a boat on the Colorado River inside Grand Canyon National Park, authorities said Tuesday. In a news release, a Grand Canyon National Park ...
An 80-year-old man visiting Grand Canyon National Park died after his boat flipped in the Colorado River, park authorities said. The incident unfolded Sunday around 3:40 p.m. near Fossil Rapid on ...
Norman D. Nevills (April 9, 1908 – September 19, 1949) was a pioneer of commercial river-running in the American Southwest, particularly the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He led trips including Dr. Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, the first two women to successfully float the Grand Canyon (which occurred in 1938), and Barry Goldwater.
In 1983, Grua, along with river guides Rudi Petschek and Steve Reynolds, set a record for speed rowing down the 277-mile length of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, with a time of 36 hours, 38 minutes and 29 seconds, breaking the previous record of just under 48 hours set in 1980 by Grua, Petschek, and Wally Rist, which in turn broke the record of 52 hours established in 1951 by the ...
“On the river, the boatman is god,” Cheyenne Szydlo told me. In the Grand Canyon, river guides enjoy an almost exalted status, revered for their ability to “read water.” Boatmen have almost total responsibility for their passengers—they keep the food and determine when and where to sleep, explore, or go to the bathroom.
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