Bleeding heavily through a makeshift tourniquet, Ralston began to hike. Then he rigged anchors into the cliff, fixed a rope and rappelled 60 feet to the canyon floor. So, after five days, Aron Ralston took out his pocketknife and amputated his arm below the elbow. It did not seem likely that a rescue crew could ever spot him in the narrow slit of Blue John Canyon, in the wilds of southeast Utah. His right arm was pinned beneath an 800-pound boulder. * Aron Ralston amputated his right arm five days after a boulder had pinned it.ĪSPEN, Colo. Trapped Hiker Had One Way Out - With His Knife
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