And,in the summer, the temperature in the desert in Black Canyon could reach as high as forty-eight degrees Celsius.

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Farther up the path are more cave homes with ruins of small stone rooms next to the wall of the canyon.

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At sunset,when the sun has moved across the sky, the canyon walls give up their fiery reds and golds.

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He says the almost overpowering silence and deepness of the Grand Canyon shakes people at least briefly out of their self-importance.

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The ancestral Pueblo people used stone tools to widen the small natural openings in the face of the canyon walls.

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Because the canyon's environments are so different, these species did not spread beyond the canyon, or even far within it.

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The path continues past the ruins of the old pueblo up toward the reddish brown wall of Frijoles Canyon.

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America's National Park Service is responsible for protecting the Grand Canyon from the effects of so many visitors.

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The tribe says the area, called Grand Canyon West, will include a large visitors' center, restaurants, and possibly hotels in the future.

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His name was Arnold Parks. He caught another worker who had fallen off the top of the canyon.

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One writer who has spent a lot of time in the Grand Canyon finds it a peaceful place.

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Arizona is the Grand Canyon State because of the famous winding canyon carved by the Colorado River.

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A huge glass walkway, called the Skywalk, extends twenty-one meters from the edge of the Grand Canyon.

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The Skywalk is suspended more than one thousand two hundred meters above the bottom of the canyon.

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They say it harms a national treasure and reduces the enjoyment of nature in the Grand Canyon.

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A long path follows along the floor of Frijoles Canyon through an area of wildflowers and trees.

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He said the dam should be built in an area called Boulder Canyon on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada.

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Mister Winter said it was his first attempt to translate the spirit of the canyon into sound.

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When he was in northern New Mexico, men from Cochiti Pueblo took him to a place where their ancestors had lived in Frijoles Canyon.

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Visitors pay twenty-five dollars each to walk beyond the canyon walls, surrounded by the canyon, while standing at the edge of the glass bridge.

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We close our program with music from a record called "Canyon Lullaby" written by Paul Winter.

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The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the largest and most beautiful of all canyons.

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Several kinds of plants and animals are found in the canyon and nowhere else on Earth.

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That is because the path ends at the top of a rock high above Zion Canyon.

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From a cave room you can see far up and down the canyon and imagine what life was like there seven hundred years ago.

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They were suspended from ropes as they used heavy air-powered hammers to break any loose rock away from the face of the canyon walls.

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However,much of what we know today about the Grand Canyon was recorded by John Wesley Powell.

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Mister Parks held the worker to the wall of the canyon until others came to help.

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