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Seeing the Grand Canyon Through Other Senses
Posted 7/14 by Laurel Morales, National Public Radio: In regards to a Global Explorers Leading the Way Expedition!
Near the edge of the Grand Canyon, Esha Mehta listens to distant thunder and feels cool rain fall on her face.
“My vision of nature comes from the sounds,” said Mehta, 21. “Then I make up what I imagine it to look like.”
The Philadelphia native has been blind since birth. But Mehta bares no grudges. In fact she can’t stop smiling. She and nine others have been hiking the Grand Canyon and they are about to launch on a river trip down the Colorado River.
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