BY ERIC KILLEA
With 800 miles of brutal terrain behind them, author Kevin Fedarko and photographer Pete McBride have joined less than two dozen others in completing a sectional thru-hike of the Grand Canyon. It took the pair over a year; they finished earlier this month.
“Hiking through the Grand Canyon is the closest to hell that I expect to come before I get there when I die,” Fedarko told Outside in August, after pulling out of 105-degree weather to rest. He wrapped up the hike on November 18. “There’s no exaggeration. That’s not hyperbole. It’s absolutely the most physical challenge that Pete and I have endured in our lives.”