Eyewitness video from Friday (July 11) shows thick smoke columns billowing from the White Sage Fire spreading across the North Rim of Arizona's Grand Canyon. World's oldest head of state, Cameroon's Biya,

“The North Rim of the Grand Canyon is like another world,” said Ethan Aumack, executive director of the Grand Canyon Trust, who has fond memories of skiing through the woods to the rim after the lone road that leads there closes for the winter. “It feels like a much more personal place.”