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GRAND world as one of our planet’s most PULPIT ROCK
This canyon is known around the

CANYON awesome sights. If you’re scared of heights, just looking at this photo of Pulpit Rock

(also called Preikestolen) is probably terrifying! This awesome
The Grand Canyon in Arizona HOW DID IT HAPPEN? natural rock formation stands about 2,000 feet (600 m) above
certainly deserves the name Gorges form when a river cuts Lysefjord, one of Norway’s long, deep fjords, or sea inlets.
“Grand.” It’s one of the biggest, through rock as it flows. Over AWESOMENESS
most breathtaking rock millions of years, the Colorado PICNIC TIME!
formations you can see River has carved its way down If you’re brave enough, you could
anywhere in the world. through the landscape to create follow thousands of others along Pulpit Rock’s stunning natural setting
the massive canyon. The river still the steep trail up to Pulpit Rock and spine-tingling awesomeness
The Grand Canyon is a gorge—a flows along the bottom today. for a day trip. In the summer, its make it one of Norway’s most famous
very deep, steep-sided river valley. flat, square platform is covered natural attractions.
The high cliffs on either side are DON’T LOOK DOWN with visitors having picnics and
striped in stunning shades of Nearly five million tourists enjoying the view. Leaning over the
color, made up of bands of rock visit the Grand Canyon area edge to peer at the 2,000-foot DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!
of different types and ages. every year. You can take a (600 m) drop is not a very good Because it provides such a sheer
Some gorges are narrow, plane or helicopter flight idea, but you can often see people vertical drop from an almost flat
but the Grand Canyon is very around it, or step out onto lying on their stomachs to take a platform, Pulpit Rock is a popular
wide. It varies from 600 feet to the Grand Canyon Skywalk, peek a little more safely. spot for the extreme sport of
19 miles (183 m to 30 km) BASE jumping. Jumpers leap off
across. At its deepest, it’s almost a glass-floored walkway the platform with a parachute and
1.25 miles (2 km) deep, and it 4,000 feet (1,219 m) above try to sail safely down to the
reaches nearly 280 miles (450 km) the bottom. Yikes! fjord below. But this is VERY
in length. dangerous, as winds can bash
the jumpers against the rock
on their way down. Ouch!

People enjoying the
stunning view from
Pulpit Rock.

CUT BY ICE The fjords and cliffs were formed when
glaciers flowed down from the mountains to the sea, cutting
The Grand Canyon, with the Colorado long, deep channels into the rock. When the ice melted, these
River flowing through it.
valleys were filled by the sea.