Beloved Washington doctor, Dr. Dennis Smith, died during a Grand Canyon hike. Known for his fitness and orthopedic work, his death may have been a freak accident, a colleague said.

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To behold the Grand Canyon from above, visitors usually book a helicopter tour or ride a zip line. But at the west rim of the ...

Search and rescue teams recently conducted 13 helicopter rescues over a seven-day span. A SAR leader blames the uptick on a detour to a vital hiking route.

But one week in late May there were 13 helicopter rescue missions. According to the magazine, the rescue missions ranged from a hiker with a lower leg injury at mile 35 of the Colorado River, to a ...

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It's not out of the ordinary for there to be search and rescue missions at the Grand Canyon ... closures includes the River Trail on the canyon floor, which connects hikers to the Bright Angel ...

"He and I have run across the Grand Canyon three times, doing Ultra Trail-type running. Probably two years ago, he decided not to do running [anymore], so he was hiking with a group out of Tucson ...

A Washington man considered to be an experienced hiker has died near the end of a 24-mile, rim-to-rim hike at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, officials confirmed. Dennis Smith, 74 ...

A 74-year-old man died while hiking the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service said Monday. The man, identified as Dennis Smith of Olympia, Washington, was attempting to hike from the canyon's ...