About 100 feet below us, the rapids of the Verdon River rush around a variety of jagged outcroppings, ... The map covering the canyon is Gorges Du Verdon/Moustiers-St-Marie/Lac De St-Croix ...

The river runs for 40 miles, with four separate sections including the 4.3-mile Bridge-to-Bridge zone, which has been compared to running all of the toughest Grand Canyon rapids – in a single day.

Le Gorges du Verdon is a river canyon complete with white-water rapids and paths which wind their way through the cliff tops, including the Blanc-Martel trail, ending at Point Sublime lookout.

A 9-day rafting expedition through the Grand Canyon and its many waterfalls, ... river-going friends allowed nine days to travel the remaining 192 miles through the Granite gorges and 70 rapids.

Western New York's Letchworth State Park isn't the only gorge that calls itself grand. At least a dozen other chasms in the eastern United States also claim to be the Grand Canyon of the East.

In May 1869, accompanied by nine men, the scientific explorer John Wesley Powell left Green River City on the first expedition by boat through the Grand Canyon. This map, with its accompanying ...