Antelope Canyon

A broad, sandy stretch of the canyon floor in mid-November, with smooth, rounded walls stepping back into the distance and a small tumbleweed caught at their base. It is a reminder of how the canyon was made and why it is guided. Flash floods carved these walls out of Navajo Sandstone, and a thunderstorm upstream can still send a wall of water rushing through. In August 1997 a flash flood in Lower Antelope Canyon killed 11 people, and that canyon now has ladders bolted into the rock and cargo nets at the top so people can climb out.