Word: canyoneering
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...Grand Canyon, Ariz., when a fractured leg trapped H. W. Moulton in a canyon bottom, rescuers hoisted his stretcher high above their heads, toiled along a river bed for 36 hours, sometimes up to their necks in water, lugged him to safety...
...bigger piece of mountain descended, heaving a loft. wall of water after the first. It picked up the fishing boats, smashed them against the shore. SPLASH! The rest of the crag fell and a mighty 20-ft. wall of water, white-crested in the dark, roared terribly up the canyon. It picked up whole houses, roared over the two villages and, diminishing slowly with its cargo of tossing bodies, receded toward the sea. Said the pastor of Tafjord's tiny church: "The dead here include twelve women, eleven men and 17 children. Several whole families were wiped out. including...
...When I arrived in Los Angeles all copies of TIME which had been printed since you received my itinerary were waiting for me at the Dollar Steamship office. I read them at the Grand Canyon and en route to Chicago...
...Robert Brown and Mary Jones, took rooms 12 & 17. Next morning as they paid their bill, Hotel Proprietor Joe Gerwitz looked at the woman in dark glasses, smirked. They sped away, stopped at Williams for gasoline. The filling station man looked at them, grinned. When they reached Grand Canyon they registered as Mary Jones and Robert Bonji, took a three room suite, changed to hiking togs, went out for some fun. A smiling park official approached, asked. ''Well, what have you to say today?" They fled back to the hotel, changed again, headed back to California. Stopping...
There were ten other deaths on CWA projects last week, nine of them in Colorado. Near Grand Junction, a canyon road gang was clearing away debris after a dynamite blast. A cliff came tumbling down on the road, buried six workers, hurled three to the bottom of a canyon 300 feet below...