The Emerald Mile

If you have the Spring 2013 issue of Mountain on your coffee table, you've probably already white-knuckled your way through the riveting excerpt Ghost Boat, one of many such breathless reads in Kevin Fedarko's brilliant new work, The Emerald Mile. Nominally, the book is about the fastest descent of the Grand Canyon-in a wooden dory during a hundred year flood-but really this is a story about wilderness and the American mind, albeit an American mind juiced on Class V adrenaline.
In the video above, Fedarko explains the meterological events that led to the hundred year flood ahead of the Emerald Mile's historic run. Read a full review of the book here: bit.ly/YHJCUZ. Find the Ghost Boat excerpt from the Spring issue here: bit.ly/19kdloD.