![]() ![]() ![]() His efforts were futile as he was unable to free his arm from the 800 lb (360 kg) chockstone. Ralston had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help.Īssuming that he would die without intervention, he spent five days slowly sipping his small amount of remaining water, approximately 350 ml (12 imp fl oz), and slowly eating his small amount of food, two burritos, while repeatedly trying to extricate his arm. The boulder first smashed his left hand, and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. While he was descending the lower stretches of the slot canyon, a suspended boulder dislodged while he was climbing down from it. In April 2003, Aron Ralston was canyoneering alone through Bluejohn Canyon, in eastern Wayne County, Utah, just south of the Horseshoe Canyon unit of Canyonlands National Park. No one was seriously injured, but his friends did not speak to him in the aftermath, causing him to reevaluate his approach to risk management. In 2003, he was caught in a Grade 5 avalanche on Resolution Peak, Colorado with his skiing partners Mark Beverly and Chadwick Spencer. Ralston began working towards his goal of climbing all of Colorado's " fourteeners"-peaks over 14,000 feet (4,270 m) altitude, of which there are 59-solo and during winter (a feat that had never been recorded before). He moved to Aspen, Colorado in order to pursue a life of climbing mountains. During his time as an engineer he had built up skills in mountaineering, and in 2002 he quit in order to climb Denali. Ralston worked as a mechanical engineer with Intel in Ocotillo, Tacoma and Albuquerque for five years, but found himself burned out by working in a large corporation. : 343 He also worked as a rafting guide during the summer. At Carnegie Mellon, he served as a resident assistant, studied abroad, and was an active intramural sports participant. He received his college degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, finishing with degrees in mechanical engineering and French, with a minor in piano. He and his family moved to Denver when he was 12, where he attended Cherry Creek High School and learned to ski and backpack. The incident is documented in Ralston's autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place and is the subject of the 2010 film 127 Hours in which he is portrayed by James Franco.Īfter the accident he continued mountaineering and became the first person to ascend all of Colorado's fourteeners solo in winter.Īron Ralston was born on October 27, 1975, in Marion, Ohio. After five days, he had to break his forearm, amputate it with a dull pocket knife to break free, make his way through the rest of the canyon, rappel down a 65-foot (20 m) drop, and hike 7 miles (11 km) to safety. On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his own right arm. ![]()
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