An Evening with Kevin Fedarko & Tom Myers

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• Monday, Jun 8, 2026  6pm - 7pm

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Join us for an evening with Kevin Fedarko and Tom Myers. The event will begin at 6:00 PM with a conversation, followed by a Q&A and book sig

Date: Monday, June 8th, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Bright Side Bookshop, 18 N. San Francisco St.

Join us for an evening with Kevin Fedarko and Tom Myers. The event will begin at 6:00 PM with a conversation, followed by a Q&A and book signing at 7:00 PM.

TICKET OPTIONS
Tickets are required to attend this event.
-General admission ticket -$5.
-A Walk In The Park + ONE General Admission Ticket $24.06
-Grandest Trek + ONE General Admission Ticket $25.10
-Book Bundle General Admission: Both books + two general admission tickets. $44.26

Books must be purchased through Bright Side Bookshop in order to attend the event, either via Eventbrite or by preordering directly through the store. If purchasing through our website, please include a note at checkout that says, “I would like to attend the event on June 8."

A Walk In The Park:
This New York Times bestseller from the author of The Emerald Mile is a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of the Grand Canyon.

Two friends, zero preparation, one dream. A few years after quitting his job to pursue an ill-advised dream of becoming a whitewater guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon—a journey that, McBride promised, would be “a walk in the park.” Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed, unaware that the small cluster of experts who had actually completed the crossing billed it as “the toughest hike in the world.”

The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was deeper, richer, and far more complex than anything the two men had imagined—and came within a hair’s breadth of killing them both. They struggled to make their way through the all-but impenetrable reaches of the canyon’s truest wilderness, a vertical labyrinth of thousand-foot cliffs and crumbling ledges where water is measured out by the teaspoon and every step is fraught with peril—and where, even today, there is still no trail spanning the length of the country’s best-known and most iconic landmark.

Along the way, veteran long-distance hikers ushered them into secret pockets of enchantment, invisible to the millions of tourists gathered on the rim, that only a handful of humans have ever seen. Members of the canyon’s eleven Native American tribes brought them face-to-face with layers of history that forced them to reconsider myths at the very center of our national parks—and exposed them to the threats of commercial tourism. Even Fedarko’s dying father, who had first pointed him toward the chasm more than forty years earlier but had never set foot there himself, opened him to a new way of seeing the landscape.

And always, there was the great gorge itself: austere and unforgiving, yet suffused with magic, drenched in wonder, and redeemed by its own transcendent beauty. A singular portrait of a sublime place, A Walk in the Park is a deeply moving plea for the preservation of America’s greatest natural treasure.

The Grandest Trek: Unforgettable People, Stories, and Lessons for Life from Hiking the Length of the Grand Canyon is the latest book from Dr. Tom Myers.

Fewer than 100 people have hiked the Grand Canyon from end to end. The Grandest Trek is a collection of remarkable stories of some who did. Most of them are inspiring. Some are tragic. All are true.

At the heart of the book is the author’s own journey with his son, who was struggling through adolescence at the time. Together, the two made a series of linked hikes of more than 600 grueling miles through harsh and unforgiving terrain, completing the Canyon’s length in 2016.

And while The Grandest Trek presents the fascinating history of lengthwise hiking in Grand Canyon, more importantly, the book also delivers the powerful and timeless message that spending time in nature can heal emotional wounds, improve self-worth, and forge unbreakable bonds of human connection.

About the Author:

Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He has been a staff writer at Time, where he worked primarily on the foreign affairs desk, and a senior editor at Outside, where he covered outdoor adventure. His writing has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times, and Esquire, among other publications. He is the author of The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon, which won the Reading the West Book Award, and A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon, which won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Both books were also New York Times bestsellers and winners of a National Outdoor Book Award. Fedarko lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Tom Myers has worked at Grand Canyon as a physician since 1990 and serves as local medical advisor for the NPS. A dedicated explorer of the Canyon backcountry since his late teens, he also has a special interest in Grand Canyon human history and wilderness medicine. An amateur writer, historian, and researcher in his free time, he has co-authored/authored multiple Grand Canyon-related publications, including four other books and numerous medical journal articles. He and his wife Becky live in Flagstaff, Arizona, and have three grown children and two grandchildren.