The Nankoweap Trail is an unmaintained

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on the North Rim of the

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, located in the U.S. state of

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. The Nankoweap trail descends 6,040 feet in 14 miles from the Saddle Mountain trailhead to Nankoweap Creek and on to the

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. It is considered to be the hardest of the trails into the Canyon. Hikers have to carry and cache water as there is none in the 11 miles between the trailhead and Nankoweap Creek. In June 1996, a

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group ran out of water in the vicinity of this trail, although they were not following the actual trail, but an off-trail route on a nearby ridge. Although one member managed to reach the Colorado River, another ultimately died from heat exhaustion and dehydration. This was covered in season 2 of ''I Shouldn't be Alive''.

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at HikeArizona
Nankoweap Trail
National Park Service factsheet. {{Clear Hiking trails in Grand Canyon National Park Grand Canyon, North Rim

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