Antelope Slot Canyon, Navajo Reservation, Page, Arizona ~ July 4, 1997
All Photos by Anthony A. Walsh, ©2004
These Canon EOS Elan film based photographs were digitized on an Epson Perfection 4870 Scanner® on November 26, 2004
Click on any photo to see a larger version, or the first photo top row left to view all sequentially.
On August 12, 1997, about five weeks after Dr. Walsh took the photos on this page, a flash flood killed 11 hikers in Antelope Slot Canyon where he and his wife Doris had been hiking. The rains that caused the 10 foot plus wall of water to race like a freight train through the canyon originated on higher ground over ten miles away. As you can see in the last photo from Newsweek©, the canyon is literally an extremely narrow water carved slot in a 100 foot plus mound of sandstone. Thus, the same forces that created the extraordinary shapes within the canyon and the opportunity to extract wonderful images when the light is right are the same forces that can be deadly when they arrive unexpectedly.
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These pages were created and are maintained by, Anthony A. Walsh. They first went on-line in early January, 1996. Contact him directly if you have comments or questions at: walsh@salve.edu---100 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island USA 02840 | 401.341.3120--- Revised: November 26, 2004 [ Cybercuriosities ]