During his time as an engineer he had built up skills in mountaineering, and in he quit in order to climb Denali. He moved to Aspen, Colorado in order to pursue a life of climbing mountains. He used to work as a mechanical engineer for Intel.
His hiking accident occurred on April 26, After the accident occurred, Ralston made numerous appearances in the media. While he was descending the lower stretches of the slot canyon, a suspended boulder became dislodged while he was climbing down from it.
The boulder first smashed his left hand, and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. Ralston had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help. He later noted that surviving being trapped in the canyon had given him a sense of invincibility, at a time that it should have humbled him.
He lost friends to suicide, and became depressed after his girlfriend broke up with him in , and has tried to shift his focus away from adventure seeking for esteem purposes. Ranked on the list of most popular Rock Climber. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in United States. Aron Ralston celebrates birthday on October 27 of every year.
After his recovery he continued to climb mountains, including Aconcagua in , and in , Ojos del Salado in Chile and Monte Pissis in Argentina. Ralston hadn't informed anyone of his hiking plans so he knew no one would be looking for him.
Ralston assumed he would die and spent the next five days slowly sipping his water and slowly eating his small amount of food. He made many attempts to free his arm, all of them futile. After 3 days of being trapped, Ralston prepared to amputate his arm at a point on the mid-forearm. He experimented with tourniquets and made some exploratory superficial cuts to his forearm in the first few days. On the fourth day, Ralston realized that in order to amputate his arm, he would have to cut through the bones, some thing his tools were insufficient in doing so.
On the fifth day Ralston ran out of food and water, he was forced to drink his own Urine gross. He carved his name, his date of birth, his presumed date of death into the sandstone canyon. On September 28, , he appeared on the radio program The Bob Rivers Show and described his ordeal as "six days of terror and horror.
While he was descending the lower stretches of the slot canyon, a suspended boulder became dislodged while he was climbing down from it. The boulder first smashed his left hand, and then crushed his right hand against the canyon wall. Ralston had not informed anyone of his hiking plans, nor did he have any way to call for help.
After the accident occurred, Ralston made numerous appearances in the media. Ralston worked as a mechanical engineer with Intel in Ocotillo, Tacoma and Albuquerque for five years, but found himself burned out by working in a large corporation. During his time as an engineer he had built up skills in mountaineering, and in he quit in order to climb Denali.
He moved to Aspen, Colorado in order to pursue a life of climbing mountains. Aron Lee Ralston born October 27, is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off his own arm.
During a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. After five days he was able to amputate his arm with a dull pocketknife, make his way through the rest of the canyon, rappel down a foot 20 m drop, and hike 7 miles 11 km to safety. Aron Ralston was born on October 27, in Marion, Ohio. He and his family moved to Denver when he was 12, where he attended Cherry Creek High School and learned to ski and backpack.
He received his college degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, finishing with degrees in mechanical engineering and French, with a minor in piano. At Carnegie Mellon, he served as a resident assistant, studied abroad, and was an active intramural sports participant. It hit 1 in New Zealand and Australia, and is the 7 best-selling memoir of all-time in the United Kingdom. On September 28, , he appeared on the radio program The Bob Rivers Show and described his ordeal as "six days of terror and horror.
After his recovery he continued to climb mountains, including Aconcagua in , and in , Ojos del Salado in Chile and Monte Pissis in Argentina. He later noted that surviving being trapped in the canyon had given him a sense of invincibility, at a time that it should have humbled him. He lost friends to suicide, and became depressed after his girlfriend broke up with him in , and has tried to shift his focus away from adventure seeking for esteem purposes.
In Ralston was a contestant on the U. He has also appeared on the Comedy Central show Tosh. In , Ralston and his girlfriend, Vita Shannon, who have a daughter together, were both arrested after an altercation at their home.
It is not clear the circumstances of the altercation. Charges against Ralston were dropped shortly after, and charges against Shannon were dropped after he did not show up to a court hearing.
On May 4, , Ralston appeared at the Swiss Economic Forum and gave a speech about "how he did not lose his hand, but gained his life back. British film director Danny Boyle directed the film Hours about Ralston's accident. Fox Searchlight Pictures funded the film. Actor James Franco played the role of Ralston. Some of the audience members in Toronto fainted during the final amputation scene. Of the authenticity of Hours, Ralston has said that the film is "so factually accurate it is as close to a documentary as you can get and still be a drama," and he jokingly added that he thought it is "the best film ever made.
American mountain climber, autobiographer, motivational speaker. Aron Ralston.
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