The Critics: The Grand Canyon Skywalk
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 05.21.07 | 7:20 AM ET
First came the hype. Now comes the big-league critical eye. New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein shuffled in his yellow surgical booties along the see-through glass of the Grand Canyon Skywalk, and he wasn’t too impressed. Seeing the Canyon from its natural edge, he suggests, transcends any man-made perch.
“[T]he frisson of danger is more properly mixed with another sentiment that has long lured viewers to the great south rim of the Grand Canyon: a sense of awe at the expanse of space, and the humbling sense of something sublime, lying beyond the grasp of human capacities,” he writes. “The Skywalk, with its peach-colored industrial-style supports under its glass floor, doesn’t come close.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Skippy LaTroy 06.15.07 | 7:27 PM ET
Ed Abbey might think…I hope the whaite man is paying a lot of money to his human being brother to walk above but not in the canyon and maybe on or two will fall.