127 Hours
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
-
-
4.0 • 20 Ratings
-
-
- $16.99
-
- $16.99
Publisher Description
A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story.
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. Five and a half days later, Aron Ralston finally came to the agonising conclusion that his only hope was to amputate his own arm and get himself to safety. Miraculously, he survived.
127 Hours 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.
Customer Reviews
Wow!
An incredible story, well written and truly absorbing. The accident, realisation, analysis or predicament, reaction, emotional turmoil, desperation… another one of those where the film doesn’t quite manage to do the book justice.
Amazing, inspiring, exhausting!
This starts off as a pleasant but slightly distant story of an accident, nicely cross-cut with flashbacks that back-fill the genesis of a driven, crazy outdoors guy. Soon you are swept into a situation of such intensity that you just have to keep reading. You know the ending but still you race on.... A very involving read.
Chapters missing!
This book from Chapter 2 to Chapter 8 with an error displayed where the words should be