Peter McBride

yeah.

Because not only is it this crazy harebrained experience that obviously Kevin had with another friend of ours, Pete McBride, he also tells the story of the 11 tribes that have called the Grand Canyon or the Grand Canyon region home, and many of whom have been displaced by the creation of Grand Canyon National Park.

And we talked about earlier, you know, TPL is doing a schoolyard in Supai Village in Havasupai.

My team told me of that.

So we have Shiprock High School.

They brought in a National Geographic photographer and Disney Plus filmmaker, Pete McBride, who came and shared his journey of being on the Colorado River and the water rights that he wanted our students to know and that he's learned along the way and just was really eye-opening.

And I think these students were very they were receiving that knowledge and it was just really neat to see Pete kind of tell his story from his photos and from his film that just what's going on on the Navajo Nation and some of these reservations that he encountered and the tribes that are or you know a lot of the journey was on the grand canyon so the uh it was just kind of it was just really neat that pete was able to share his knowledge with our students and what he learned and again that they just empower these students and maybe have you know start talking to some some legislators and and you know speaking up in the community and have a voice for for water rights and

Yeah, an important topic for sure.

And when you are moving down it and up it, you are moving forward and backward in time, and you are being invited to contemplate time in a way that no other landscape feature on Earth will do for you.

Just over a decade ago, Kevin and his friend and National Geographic photographer, Pete McBride, ventured into the canyon to hike the 750-mile trek through plunging rocks, spiky cactus, and dangerous heat.

At the time, they would be two of only a few dozen people to ever walk the entire canyon.

Their goal was to write about the experience for National Geographic, and to uncover the human-made threats that were facing the canyon at the same time.

There were times when they questioned how smart this idea might be.

It took the Colorado River roughly six million years to carve the Grand Canyon into the Colorado Plateau.

It took the Grand Canyon five and a half days to break Pete McBride and I in half.

[laughs] Head on, they faced serious heat exhaustion, dehydration, and had multiple near-death experiences, including almost running out of food during a snowstorm.