The Risky Survivalist Story Of Aron Ralston

By Walter Campbell


If you are familiar with the movie 127 Hours last 2010, then be aware that the subject portrayed by James Franco was actually based from the life of Aron Lee Ralston of an accident that happened in Utah in 2003. What happened was he used a pocketknife in giving amputation to his right arm just to escape the boulder that blocked him from getting out in the Blue John Canyon in five days. As painful as that sounds, he managed to survive.

Being an outdoorsman, engineer, and motivational speaker had been his whole career before the incident took place. The reason he got into a critical situation was because he had been enjoying canyoneering and also hiking mountains like those fourteen thousand feet mountains at Colorado that he achieved. Let us all unravel the life of Aron Ralston and his tragic survivalist story for a deeper background.

April 26, 2003 marks the beginning of his unforgettable experience by hiking as a start on this Blue John Canyon found on eastern Wayne County at Utah. During the arrival at slot canyon, a random boulder immediately dislodged or even crushed his right hand. He could not get out and not one person looked for him since he did not leave any note to other people about his hiking experience.

He became sort of hopeless while staying there in five days and he slowly ate his two burritos and drank limited water while finding ways to get the arm out of the rock. On its third day, dehydration met his fate and he already got desperate in cutting his right arm. With the tourniquets he had at hand, he did experiments on how to properly cut by amputating a forearm to practice.

He definitely lacked the right tools for the job but he still had it in thought to include cutting the bones during the fourth day. During the fifth, he lacked something to drink or eat which led the man to consume his own urine so he could survive. Out of boredom, he made carvings on sandstone walls like his presumed death date, birth date, and name while also utilizing a videotape by saying farewell to those he love.

In performing the amputation, he used his multi tool in which the knife of about two inches was included. The worst part was that it was very dull especially when he used it for carving. However, he managed to do that successfully.

He was already single handed but he had to hike out with the extreme heat of the sun and he had no phone in his ride too. Luckily, he found a family on a trip from the Netherlands. In the process of alerting the right authorities to save him, they gave him some water and Oreos for a while.

He might have died if he bled to death but that did not happen even in losing weight. Individuals who rescued him finally arrived and brought him to a helicopter. He got saved while he got an amputated arm for six hours with no treatment.

He said that he might be dead if he only wanted to be rescued. In returning to the site, fact was that thirteen men have to push a boulder. He also scattered ashes of his cremated arm in the area.




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