When my father told me he wanted to take a family hiking trip to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, I’ll admit I thought he was out of his mind. A wheelchair user since a brainstem stroke in 2005, I knew he was itching for adventure, but this was something different. This would be a trek, an overnight, multi-day descent into one of the most inaccessible places on the planet. I now realize that was his point, but cut me some slack, I was young and short-sighted.
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