The man was swept overboard and emerged from the rapid unconscious.

Officials identified the victim as Aaron Benjamin, an experienced kayaker from Idaho ...

A 30-year-old man died during a Grand Canyon raft trip on Thursday, Feb. 19, despite efforts to save him by group members and rangers dispatched to the scene by helicopter.

Aaron Benjamin, 30, drowned in the Grand Canyon while solo-captaining a raft in Hance Rapid, a formidable whitewater section of the Colorado River.

Aaron Benjamin always loved the water. His mother, Patricia Benjamin, remembers him asking to go to the river just to throw rocks when he was young. By his early teens, he could row a ...

An experienced Indiana river runner tragically died after being swept off his raft in a powerful rapid on a Colorado River expedition.

A man died after he was swept from his raft while navigating rapids in Grand Canyon National Park. According to the National Park Service, Aaron Benjamin, 30, of Post Falls, Idaho, was pulled from the ...