Saturday, May 21, 2016

Notable Survivalist Story Of Aron Ralston

By Walter Campbell


If an individual has already seen the 127 Hours movie in 2010, then clearly he or she has seen the performance of James Franco which was based from a real life event involving Aron Lee Ralston and the accident which occurred in Utah of 2003. The event led to having only a single pocketknife to amputate his arm on the right to free against boulders that prevented him to escape that took place at the Blue John Canyon for five straight days. As troubling as we hear that, he still survived it all.

Before that incident, the man was already known as a motivational speaker, engineer, and outdoorsman. He has been known to enjoy climbing mountains, specifically those that reach fourteen thousand feet in Colorado, and even canyoneering which led him to the incident. For more detailed information about what happened, let us discuss more about the notable survivalist story of Aron Ralston.

It was in Utah, specifically at eastern Wayne County, where he was able to hike alone last April 26, 2003. What caused him to have a crushed right hand was due to a dislodged boulder when he arrived on a slot canyon. The biggest mistake is he did not give any information to anyone before which he was hiking so not a single person searched for him being stuck there.

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 lost a lot of weight which was forty pounds so it was a miracle that he did not die while bleeding. With a helicopter, he got rescued at last. He was actually in a condition of having his arm chopped off for six hours without medical help.

He mentioned he could die if he did nothing. It takes thirteen people to move the boulder too. Lastly, he visited the place for a documentary and spread his ashes of the arm being cremated on that same spot.




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