Aron Ralston

Aron Lee Ralston ( born October 27, 1975 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American mountain climber who became by a self- performed amputation of his hand international notoriety.

Aron Ralston had set a goal to climb all 59 four thousand meter peaks in Colorado alone. In April 2003, it came at a Canyon hike in the Blue John Canyon in Utah to an accident in which a rock got jammed Ralston's right hand.

Ralston tried for five days, to free themselves from his position, but his strategies were not successful:

• The shattering or crushing of the rock with his pocket knife was too slow process.
• The self-made pulley had through the use of guide rollers snap hook instead of too much power loss in the system.
• The amputation of his arm was prevented by the blunt penknife and the realization that he could never so cut through the bone.

The time in which he was trapped, Ralston noted using his camcorder. When faced with the possible death, he left as his family. The footage he continues to this day under lock and showed it to only his family and closest friends. For the film 127 Hours, which recreates the accident history, allowed director Danny Boyle and actor James Franco, who plays the role of Aron Ralston, the only outsiders to see the material. The film was released in 2010.

After five sleepless days and nights, cool and almost dried up, he finally solved the problem of cutting through bone by leaning radius and ulna broke. To this end he bent the arm of his hand clamped so long in one direction until a bone broke. The soft tissues and blood vessels, he severed with a pocket knife. He then had to walk another 13 kilometers before he was found and rescued by hikers.

Its for many people barely comprehensible act and his unshakable quest for survival brought him along with numerous articles in magazines and newspapers also have a guest appearance on the David Letterman Show a. The magazine " Gentlemen's Quarterly " named him Man of the Year 2003.

Today, Ralston wears a prosthetic arm, which indicates not to miss his arm in the light of experience gained by the disaster. For him a second life had begun, which he is now much more intense live through than the previous. Its specially designed prosthetic arm carries an ice pick, which further enables him to mountaineering. In March 2004, approximately ten months after the amputation, Ralston climbed for the first time only a four-thousand. Already in the following winter he reached his own goal, the ascent of all 59 four-thousand in Colorado. His hand was cremated and the ashes scattered over the Canyon. Today Aron lives with his wife and child in India.