Access to Adventure: Accessibility in National Parks
We hear “the outdoors are for everyone” a lot, and while that is true, accessibility to the outdoors is not always created equal. Today’s episode is dedicated to two remarkable stories of people with disabilities reaching for history in National Parks. A group of paraplegic hikers who set out to climb Guadalupe Peak in wheelchairs and two kayakers who paddled through the Grand Canyon—facing some of the hardest whitewater in the world—completely blind.
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SourcesDocumentaries: Assault on the Mountain, The Weight of Water, Blink, Wampler’s Ascent
Books: No Barriers: A Blind Man's Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon by Buddy Levy and Erik Weihenmayer
Touch the top of the world by Erik Weihenmayer
Articles: Disability in America (CDC), Texas Highways, FDR’s Glacier Speech (NPS), Accessibility Guidebooks (NPS) ,Administrative History of Guadalupe Mountains (NPS), DOI Access to Adventure, PBS, Outside Online, SF Gate
Podcasts: David Kiley Podcast with Don Rogers (DK3), No Barriers
Websites: Lonnie Bedwell, Erik Weihenmayer
