What it was like to retrace the first expedition down the Grand Canyon a century later One hundred years after John Wesley Powell’s historic trek down the Grand Canyon, National Geographic went on a commemorative expedition to see the wonders the geologist wrote about and the risks he t...

What it was like to retrace the first expedition down the Grand Canyon a century later

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The Southern #Appalachian Mountains and wider #Piedmont region are an elevated formation that effectively “interrupts” weather formations coming off the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.

#JohnWesleyPowell knew.