Mountaineer Aron Ralston spent 127 hours pinned by a boulder in Utah’s Bluejohn Canyon — until he amputated his own arm and escaped.
In April 2003, Aron Ralston was on a solo climbing trip in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park when an 800-pound boulder suddenly fell from above him. The next thing he knew, his right arm was lodged between the boulder and a canyon wall. Quite literally caught between a rock and a hard place, Ralston was also trapped 100 feet below the desert surface and 20 miles away from the road.
Though he had enough provisions to get him through a few days, Aron Ralston was forced to drink his own urine after he ran out of food. Convinced that he was going to die, he recorded goodbye messages to his loved ones on his video camera. He even carved his own epitaph into the canyon wall so that people would know when he passed away. Read the full story here ▶
