Aron Ralston

Aron Ralston is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker, born on 27 October 1975 in Marion, Ohio. He is best known for surviving a canyoneering accident in Bluejohn Canyon, Utah, in April 2003, when a boulder pinned his right wrist and he freed himself after five days by amputating part of his arm. His account, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, became the film 127 Hours. He carried on climbing, and in 2005 became the first person to climb all 59 of Colorado fourteeners alone in winter, a project he had begun in 1997.