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

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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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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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The Grand Canyon was cut into the desert floor beginning thousands of years ago.

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The walls of Black Canyon rise almost two hundred forty-three meters above the river.

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Some visitors say they feel so small when measured against the canyon's great size.

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They are tall and thin, and seem to grow from the canyon floor.

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Many people moved from the mesa tops to the bottom of Frijoles Canyon.

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Rain,snow,ice,wind, and plant roots rubbed away at the top of the new canyon.

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Slowly the great dam began to rise from the floor of the canyon.

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The Grand Canyon is proof of the power of this great river.

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Hundreds of thousands of people see the canyon by air each year.

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