АНУ-ын Гранд Каньоны алслагдсан бүсэд эртний хадны сүг зураг судлахаар явган аялалд гарсан туршлагатай аялагч 14 жилийн дараа олдлоо.
2012 оны дөрөвдүгээр сарын 5-нд 65 настай Билл Отт Гранд Каньоны Hualapai Indian Reservation бүсэд гурван долоо хоногийн явган аялалд гарчээ. Орегон мужийн оршин суугч тэрээр 3,000-4,000 жилийн настай, эртний хадны сүг зургийг судалж, гэрэл зурагт буулгах зорилготой байв. Тэрээр 1981 онд Гранд Каньоныг хөндлөн туулсан анхны аялагчдын нэг гэгддэг, туршлагатай уулын аялагч байсан ч аяллын явцад сураггүй алга болсон юм.
Билл Отт нь байгальтай ойр, орчин үеийн технологиос ангид амьдралын хэв маягийг эрхэмлэдэг нэгэн байжээ. Тэрээр жил бүр Аризона мужид ирж, Колорадо голын дагуу аялж, эртний хадны зургуудыг дижитал хэлбэрт шилжүүлэх нарийн төвөгтэй ажлыг хийдэг байв. Түүний судалж байсан хадны зургууд нь Гранд Каньоны баруун хэсгийн алслагдсан бүсэд байрладаг, эртний соёлын үнэт өвүүдийн нэг юм.
Албаны хүмүүс 14 жилийн дараа түүний цогцсыг олсноор энэхүү нууцлаг хэргийг хааж байна. Гэсэн хэдий ч туршлагатай аялагч яг юуны улмаас амиа алдсан нь тодорхойгүй хэвээр үлджээ. Энэхүү үйл явдал нь Гранд Каньон зэрэг зэрлэг байгалийн бүсэд хийх аяллын аюулгүй байдал болон эртний түүхэн дурсгалт газруудын нууцлаг шинж чанарыг дахин нэг сануулж байна.
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On April 5, 2012, 65-year-old Bill Ott set out on a three-week, solo thru-hike of a remote area of the Grand Canyon. The Oregon man was in search of thousand-year-old rock panels on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, pictures from the past that he had spent years chasing, photographing, and digitally recreating.
He would never be heard from again.
Now, officials have positively identified a set of human remains found 14 years after his disappearance, closing one chapter of his mysterious disappearance. But what happened to the blue-eyed hiker remains a mystery.
Bill Ott Was a Legendary River Runner and Thru-Hiker
Bill Ott wasn’t just a lost tourist—he was a legendary wilderness figure. Scott Thybony, a Flagstaff anthropologist who knew Ott, told Outside that the former river guide was an experienced expedition hiker. Ott spent 78 days walking the length of the Grand Canyon in 1981, making him the first to complete the traverse on the north side.
“Some people credit him with doing the first thru-hike of the Grand Canyon because on the north side he was able to stay below the rim from Lee’s Ferry to Grand Wash Cliffs at the end of the Grand Canyon,” Thybony told Outside. “But that’s splitting hairs. “
Thybony was involved in the initial 2012 search for Ott—he was also the one who advised him on where to explore. Years before his disappearance, Ott decided to “pull a Thoreau” Thybony said, and sold all of his possessions except for what he could fit on a $250 motorcycle, which he drove up to Cave Junction, Oregon. There, he built a cabin using an ax and saw, tools he could use with just his hands. Thybony says Ott was anti-technology and lived completely off the grid, but he’d come back down to Arizona at least once a year to run the Colorado River, hike through the Grand Canyon, and a more recentpassion, search for ancient rock art.
“I try to stay away from using the term ‘otherworldly,’ because this art is of our world,” Thybony told Outsideover the phone. “But there’s a series of archaic rock panels that dates back between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago, possibly older.”
Featuring long-bodied “visionary” beings, these panels occupy a remote section of the western canyon on the north side of the river. Thybony describes them as spectacular. The multi-colored panels weren’t well-known until the eighties, and Thybony was one of the first modern explorers to examine them in 1998 as part of a National Geographic grant.
Ott was working in a nursing facility at the time of his disappearance, but but devoted his off-time to photographing and digitally recreating ancient rock art.
“He would go pixel by pixel, hours after hours, trying to match the colors with broken-off pigment, removing smoke stains,” Thybony said. “It was a painstaking effort, and it went on for years.”
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