środa, 25 maja 2016

Aron Ralston And His Tragic Survivalist Story

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.

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 still managed to hike with only one hand left with the really warm sun challenging him to survive. In the end, there was a family on vacation there. They alerted the people in charge for rescue plus they gave him a bit of water or food in a short time.

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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