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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston
One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.
Atria
August 2005
Featuring: Aron Ralston
368 pages
ISBN: 074349282X
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on
a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-
year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the
remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a
winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest
peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met
two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he
finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the
beauty of the natural world all around him. It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and
narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged
boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came
loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling
stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon
wall. And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston. With scant
water and little food, no jacket for the painfully cold
nights, and the terrible knowledge that he'd told no one
where he was headed, he found himself facing a lingering
death -- trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down in
the bottom of a canyon. As he eliminated his escape options
one by one through the days, Aron faced the full horror of
his predicament: By the time any possible search and rescue
effort would begin, he'd most probably have died of
dehydration, if a flash flood didn't drown him before that. What does one do in the face of almost certain death? Using
the video camera from his pack, Aron began recording his
grateful good-byes to his family and friends all over the
country, thinking back over a life filled with adventure,
and documenting a last will and testament with the hope
that someone would find it. (For their part, his family and
friends had instigated a major search for Aron, the amazing
details of which are also documented here for the first
time.) The knowledge of their love kept Aron Ralston alive,
until a divine inspiration on Thursday morning solved the
riddle of the boulder. Aron then committed the most extreme
act imaginable to save himself. Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- a brilliantly written,
funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report
from the line where death meets life -- will surely take
its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.
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