Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Not for the faint hearted.
Faced with the choice of dying or severing his arm without pain killers or medical experience, the brave author of this story survives to tell us what happened.
This has to be one of the most terrifying ordeal any man can encounter.
On a regular mountain hike in Colorado, Aron Ralston was climbing Blue John Canyon on a Saturday afternoon in 2003 when a huge boulder pinned his right hand and wrist to the canyon wall.
Unable to free himself, Aron recounts the ordeal he suffered over the next 127 hours as he attempted to free himself.
For 5 days he endured the awful pain and realisation that if he did not take the ultimate sacrifice of severing his right hand with his knife then he was not going to survive.
This story is now available as an audio book narrated by Aron, and has also been made into a movie entitled 127 hours.
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