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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.
Bluejohn Canyon came to international attention in 2003 as the place where outdoorsman Aron Ralston was forced to amputate his own right forearm with a multi-tool after it became trapped by a boulder. Ralston's five-day ordeal was described in his autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place [5] and was depicted in the 2010 film 127 Hours. [6]
One of the most famous canyoneering misadventures, which became the basis for the movie "127 Hours," involved adventure seeker Aron Ralston, who got his arm wedged between a boulder and a canyon ...
In the film, canyoneer Aron Ralston must find a way to escape after he gets trapped by a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Bluejohn Canyon, southeastern Utah, in April 2003. It is a British and American venture produced by Pathé , Everest Entertainment, Film4 Productions , HandMade Films and Cloud Eight Films.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place is a 2004 autobiographical book by American mountain climber Aron Ralston. [1] It details an incident that occurred in 2003 when Ralston was canyoneering in Bluejohn Canyon in the Utah desert, where he became trapped for five days.
In 2002, Doug Goodale cut off one of his arms at the elbow in order to survive an accident at sea. [19] In 2003, Aron Ralston was on a canyoneering trip in Bluejohn Canyon (near Moab, Utah), when a boulder fell and pinned his right forearm down, crushing it. First he tried to chip away the rock around his hand with his pocket knife, but gave up ...
The most notable case of this is Aron Ralston, a hiker who amputated his own right forearm after it was pinned by a boulder in a hiking accident and he was unable to free himself for over five days. [ 12 ]
Gov. Josh Shapiro took a moment Monday to commend the community for coming together in the wake of the crash. He recounted a man in a green hoodie who ran toward the crash looking to help the injured.