First Visitors Step Onto Canyon Skywalk

Walking gingerly across the translucent surface, visitors hear the glass layers creak. Far below, directly underfoot, they see the Colorado River as a pea-green ribbon.

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First Visitors Step Onto Canyon Skywalk

Indian leaders and a former astronaut stepped gingerly beyond the Grand Canyon's rim Tuesday, staring through the glass floor and into the 4,000-foot chasm below during the opening ceremony for a new observation deck.

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Tribe Puts Bridge on Grand Canyon's Edge

An Indian tribe fastened a massive glass-bottomed walkway to the edge of the Grand Canyon on Wednesday as part of an ambitious tourism center that has angered environmentalists and some tribal members. The Hualapai (pronounced WALL-uh-pie), an impoverished tribe of about 2,200 people at the canyon's remote western edge, allowed a private developer to construct the $30 million Skywalk in hopes of luring tourists to the region.

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GRAND CANYON WEST, Ariz.--I'm standing hundreds and hundreds of feet out over and above the Grand Canyon, looking down into it, and yet I'm not falling in.

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A Tragedy Forgotten: Frank Freeman Interview

This is a follow-up to my original article: A Tragedy Forgotten: The KC "Hyatt Regency" Skywalk Collapse. The initial article covered the historical aspects of the tragedy and can be found here. This follow-up is intended to be a more focused look into the life of one survivor.

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A Tragedy Forgotten: The KC "Hyatt Regency" Skywalk Collapse

I spent the first 18 years of my life plodding about a small town in Indiana before moving to the Kansas City area in 1997.

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Grand Canyon Skywalk

The Skywalk is a tourist attraction currently under construction at Grand Canyon West.

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The Grand Canyon Meets the 21st Century

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