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The unforgettable survival story of the year -- the astonishing, day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's terrible accident, self-amputation, rescue and recovery. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. conclusion that anyone who was looking for him was not going to find him in time. He then made the most difficult decision of his life: his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. Between A Rock And A Hard Place is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching The Void.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Aron Ralston
- Verlag
- Simon & Schuster
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2004
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 354
- ISBN10
- 0743263537
- ISBN13
- 9780743263535
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Abenteuer, Familie, Sport & Outdoor, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Freundschaft, USA, Amerika, Überleben, Sportlerbiografien, Suche, Unfall, Wandern, Aufenthalt in der Natur, Verschwinden von Menschen, Überlebenskampf, Verzweiflung, Colorado
- Originaltitel
- Between a rock and a hard place
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The unforgettable survival story of the year -- the astonishing, day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's terrible accident, self-amputation, rescue and recovery. On Saturday, 26 April 2003, Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old outdoorsman and adventurer, set off for a day's hike in the Utah canyons. Eight miles from his truck, he found himself in the middle of a deep and remote canyon. Then the unthinkable happened: a boulder shifted and snared his right arm against the canyon wall. He was trapped, facing dehydration, starvation, hallucinations and hypothermia as night-time temperatures plummeted. conclusion that anyone who was looking for him was not going to find him in time. He then made the most difficult decision of his life: his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived. Between A Rock And A Hard Place is more than just an adventure story. It is a brave, honest and above all inspiring account of one man's valiant effort to survive, and is destined to take its place among adventure classics such as Touching The Void.