Historic Names and approved renaming Twenty-Four Mile Rapid as Georgie Rapid in a split 3–2 vote. The detractors were many due to Georgie's habit of disregarding her customers' safety. Her business had the distinction of having the first rafting commercial fatality, Mae Hansen, aged 64, in July 1972, and the first injured person to be evacuated by helicopter from the Grand Canyon, Vernon Read, who suffered severe skull and spinal fractures on a trip in 1959. On August 25, 1984, river guide John Davenport, watched as Georgie intentionally launched her boat into a dangerous position into Lava Falls Rapid (River Mile 179.4), and reported Customer Norine Abrams died as a result of these actions. When National Park Service Ranger Kim Crumbo arrived to transport Ms. Abram's body out, Georgie became frustrated because the transportation was taking too long. She had new customers arriving and she didn't want them to see the body bag. She so annoyed the ranger (who had injured his back moving the body) that "Ranger Crumbo said 'Georgie, you just killed this woman, now you want me to hurry up and hide the body?' Georgie stared Crumbo in the eye and said, 'You're damned right I do. Now get her out of sight before you scare these new people.'" Further reading DeRoss, Rose Marie (1970). Adventures of Georgie White, TV's "Woman of the Rivers". Gardner Printing and Mailing Co. . Westwood, Dick (1997). Woman of the River: Georgie White Clark, White Water Pioneer. Utah State University Press. . Dimock, Brad (2001). Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde . Fretwater Press. . Briggs, Don (1999). River Runners of the Grand Canyon, VHS/DVD Ghiglieri, Michael P. and Thomas M. Myers (2001). "Over the Edge: Death in Grand Canyon". Puma Press. References Early Grand Canyon river runners 1911 births 1992 deaths