Saturday, April 9, 2011

127 hours

So, I watched 127 hours last night.  If you haven't seen it, you should.  It's pretty crazy.  It's based on a true story about a guy named Aron Ralston (played by James Franco).  In 2003, he went to Utah and he went down Blue John Canyon, which is a slot canyon...not very wide at all.  When he was going down the canyon, a boulder got loose and pinned his right hand between the boulder and the wall of the canyon.  His hand was stuck.  He tried everything he could to get his hand loose, but nothing worked.  Aron was in the canyon for 6 days (127 hours)...he was dehydrated, hungry, his body was shutting down;  Aron Ralston was slowly dying.  He had one last option to get his arm free...to cut it loose.  He broke it in two places and then cut it loose.  I won't give you all the details, watch it for yourself! Also, below I am posting an interview (part 1 of 6) Aron had with Tom Brocaw of NBC news.  Aron's story is pretty mind blowing!

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