Aron Ralston
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"Aron Lee Ralston" is an United States/American Outdoor enthusiast/outdoorsman, engineer and Motivational speaking/motivational speaker.

He survived a Canyoning/canyoneering accident in south-eastern Utah in 2003, during which he Amputation/amputated his own right forearm with a dull pocketknife in order to extricate himself from a dislodged boulder, underneath which he had been trapped for five days and seven hours (127 hours). After he freed himself, he had to rappel down a sheer cliff face to reach safety.

The incident is documented in Ralston's autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place (book)/Between a Rock and a Hard Place and is the subject of the 2010 film 127 Hours starring James Franco.

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Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

It really was a miracle that things just worked and fell into place, ... I feel like there was a reason why things happened in the way they did. It wasn't just happenstance.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

I thought I was going to die.

For five years I had a phenomenally successful career, but I was bored.

I'd taken the knife, and I'd etched into the wall the four letters of my name. Just to identify who this body that was here.

I think my spirituality is very similar to what it was before. It wasn't as if I went through some kind of enlightenment and figured out all the answers, ... I figured out what was important to me, but I knew that before. I just didn't express it as much to the people I appreciate, to my family and friends, and I've tried to be more practiced in that.

My name is Aron Ralston. My parents are Donna and Larry Ralston of Englewood, Co. Whoever finds this, please make an attempt to get it to them. Be sure of it, I would appreciate it.

What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.