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While six miles [ 9.6 kilometers ] does n't sound like much , the tiny lake sits at the edge of Forest Canyon , a densely wooded wilderness in the Big Thompson River valley . Scientists at the center study the habits of aye-ayes and other lemurs in an effort to save the endangered animals . While I snapped photos of the sunset , the boatman scanned the roiling current with eyes wizened by lifetimes of river sun . " She would go on to write about her travels in this region in the 1934 classic The Valleys of the Assassins , while her mapping and exploratory achievements would earn her an award from England 's Royal Geographical Society and , later , a knighting by the Queen of England.Stark risked her life to journey to this part of Lorestan , searching for a Bronze Age hidden treasure that was rumored to be stashed among these hills , but she never found it , leaving behind a lingering mystery . The first three climbers left the shelf one at a time , each belayed by those above , until they were stretched out down the narrow ridge like beads on a string . With that in mind we let our guard down a bit and let John and Mark take the watch . But I was a foreigner and a tourist , crouching in a little wooden skiff for my half-hour glimpse of pilgrims and funerals while my boatman worked the oars with hands as tough as talons . Old Western travelers cut their initials into the stone , the earliest signature dating from 1522 . Sometime in 1990 , while I was recovering from a biking accident , I did some soul searching and determined that competition for competition 's sake was empty . " I saw a mass of ropes , packs , and people sliding a hundred miles [ 161 kilometers ] an hour down the mountain , " Hashbarger says . With a burro bought from a Navajo , he hiked for the better part of ten months , wandering from Phoenix to Canyon de Chelly , from Zion to the Grand Canyon .