Friday 27 May 2016

Notable Survivalist Story Of Aron Ralston

By Walter Campbell


During year 2003, a guy named Aron Lee Ralston had a painful accident in Utah and the event was even the inspiration to one of the notable movies released in 2010 called 127 Hours starring James Franco. For five challenging days, a boulder made him unable to escape the Blue John Canyon which led him to have an idea of escaping by amputating the right arm using a very dull pocketknife. He still managed to live even when the thought of it is hard to imagine.

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.

On day four, it crossed in his mind to finally do an amputation deep within his bones and he disregarded the fact that he had the worst tools for use. He also forced his self in saving the urine he excretes only to drink it later especially on day five when there was already nothing to eat and drink. He brought a videotape so he used that for bidding goodbyes to the whole family and also managed to carve on walls that indicated his name, date of birth, or assumed date of death.

In amputating, he used the two inch knife for that. It got super dull which was caused in the carving. Still, he was successful.

He went back to the vehicle but there was no sign of a phone and he had to continue walking under the heat of sun while being injured. There were three people on a family vacation in sight. They even offered some Oreos and water while waiting for the authorities to arrive and help the man.

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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