Aron Ralston
Aron was pinned in a 3-foot wide slot canyon near the Maze
District of Canyonlands National Park. Ralston cut through
his own arm below the elbow then applied a tourniquet and
administered first aid to himself before rigging anchors
and fixing a rope to rappel to the bottom of Blue John
Canyon and beyond all odds, meet rescuers. Ralston, who was
hiking alone when the boulder fell and pinned his right
arm . Ralston told rescuers that on Thursday morning he
realized he would not survive unless he took drastic
action. He had run out of water on Tuesday. The episode marked Ralston's second brush with death since
February, when he was buried in an avalanche while
backcountry skiing in the Colorado Rockies. Ralston, an
avid outdoorsman who has climbed 49 of Colorado's 14,000-
foot-plus mountains, was buried up to his neck in the
avalanche, managing to dig himself out along with a
completely buried skiing companion within 15 minutes. Aron Ralston grew up in the Midwest before moving to
Colorado when he was twelve, a place where he became an
avid outdoorsman. In 2002, he gave up a career as a
mechanical engineer in New Mexico and moved to Aspen,
Colorado, where among other things he continued his attempt
to climb the fifty high points...
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Series
Books:127 Hours, November 2010
Paperback
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, August 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
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