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Handsome mule packer in his late forties with sun-lined face, light brown hair, short beard and blue eyes standing beside a brown mule at the rim of the Grand Canyon at golden hour

A Hiker Collapsed at the Bottom of the Grand Canyon, the Helicopter Was Grounded by Wind, and the Only Way Out Was Seven Miles Straight Up on the Back of a Mule Nobody Else Could Ride

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I pack mules in and out of the Grand Canyon for a living. Delilah is the most stubborn animal on the South Rim, and she has thrown every wrangler who ever tried her, except me. The night a man’s heart failed at the bottom of the canyon, she was the only chance he had.

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