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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Aron Ralston

  • 368 pages ยท about 6 hours
  • First published 2004
  • 25 editions
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1 About this book

Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home in the beautiful natural world. Then, at 2:41 p.m., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron's right hand and wrist against the canyon wall.

Through six days of hell, with scant water, food, or warm clothing, and the terrible knowledge that no one knew where he was, Aron eliminated his escape options one by one. Then a moment of stark clarity helped him to solve the riddle of the boulder, and commit one of the most extreme and desperate acts imaginable.

Good for readers who want: a true life story and travel writing.

  • Wilderness survival
  • Survival
  • Biography
  • Courage
  • Mountaineers
  • Mountaineering
  • Mountaineering accidents
  • Description and travel

2 About Aron Ralston

Born 1975

Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker. He survived a canyoneering accident in 2003 by cutting off part of his own right arm. On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, Ralston dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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