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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk in 3-D
Seeing as how I'm a huge fan of the Grand Canyon, my wife and I went to
the Bob Bullock Texas State
History Museum to see the new documentary, Grand
Canyon Adventure: River at Risk at the six story IMAX theatre inside
the museum. Over the past 20 years I've been 3 times to the Rim,
including the North, South, and the Havasupai Indian Reservation. Read
notes on our Grand Canyon trip a few years ago. After seeing the
documentary, I'm anxious to go on a future trip down to Phantom Ranch
and rafting on the river. The 3-D film was inspiring to watch, as the
river rapids surged in your face and the sun radiated off the rock
cliffs formed by the river. The rafting trip through the Canyon is led
by Robert Kennedy Jr., a Havasupai Indian woman river guide, and Wade
Davis, an anthropologist, who is writing a book on the Colorado River.
Robert Redford provides the voice over, with music by the Dave Matthews
Band. The underling thread of the film is that the Colorado River is
slowly drying up from overuse (which I fully agree with) and global
warming (not so much).
View a film snippet of Grand Canyon
Adventure: River At Risk:
