Read an excerpt from 'Fierce Country 'about Georgie White, the first woman to guide river trips through the dangerous rapids of the Grand Canyon.

The Dragon Bravo Fire upended lives on the Grand Canyon National Park's North Rim.

Millions of people pull into the Grand Canyon’s South Rim each year, snap a photo from Mather Point, and feel like they’ve seen it. They haven’t. The canyon is so vast, so layered with hidden ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated when and how the Colorado River first carved its way through the Grand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Grand Canyon draws more scientific attention than just about any stretch of river-carved rock in the world, yet it remains ...

April 17 (Reuters) - The Grand Canyon is a marvel on the landscape of North America, a breathtaking geological feature in the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona presenting dramatic contours and richly ...

This story originally published in the May 1969 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The growl grows to a roar as the current sweeps us onward. Now ...