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Title	:	Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Author	:	Aron Ralston
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	August 30th 2005 by Atria Books (first published August 31st 2004)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure. Survival

Between a Rock and a Hard Place Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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A brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life which will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories. One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him. It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston. With scant water and little food, no jacket for the painfully cold nights, and the terrible knowledge that he'd told no one where he was headed, he found himself facing a lingering death -- trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down in the bottom of a canyon. As he eliminated his escape options one by one through the days, Aron faced the full horror of his predicament: By the time any possible search and rescue effort would begin, he'd most probably have died of dehydration, if a flash flood didn't drown him before that. What does one do in the face of almost certain death? Using the video camera from his pack, Aron began recording his grateful good-byes to his family and friends all over the country, thinking back over a life filled with adventure, and documenting a last will and testament with the hope that someone would find it. (For their part, his family and friends had instigated a major search for Aron, the amazing details of which are also documented here for the first time.) The knowledge of their love kept Aron Ralston alive, until a divine inspiration on Thursday morning solved the riddle of the boulder. Aron then committed the most extreme act imaginable to save himself. Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- a brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life -- will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.

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Original Title:	Between a Rock and a Hard Place
ISBN:	074349282X (ISBN13: 9780743492829)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Aron Ralston
Literary Awards:	Lincoln Award Nominee (2007)

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Now, I will start first by saying I saw the movie, 127 Hours first. Of course, I then had to read the book. Usually the book is much better, but the movie is one of my favourites and Aron's fight to survive really resonated with me- whereas the book, although had mostly good points, it also has some flaws. His adventures:As other reviewers have said, much of this book seems to be a filler of Aron's boastful stories of adventures and near-death experiences. At first they were really interesting,

This is the vehement story of mountaineer Aron Ralston who always, for he starts an expedition, tells his friends and family where he's going to climb. Just not this time, may 2003, in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon, he falls into a cave and by the most uncredible bad luck his hand gets stuck between a big massive rock.This book describes Ralston's struggle against thirst, hunger, desperation, pain, stress and anxiety, because nobody knows where he is.His situation keeps getting worse and worse.

First of all, God what a story.If you have not seen the movie, Aron is best known as "that guy that had to cut off his own arm." While hiking in a canyon a rock smashes his arm and he is stuck almost a week with very low food and water until he amputates his own arm in order to survive.Now this is an odd reading experience. It is one of the few times where the movie is much better then the book, and the oddness compounds when Aron Ralston is writing a true account of his own experiences. How

I am going to go easy on my review here, because the man did have to cut off his own hand, but I really didn't like this book and mostly because I didn't like the author.He (my guess is, unwittingly) does not give a flattering portrayal of himself. The autobiographical background chapters of the book are not enjoyable to read and basically paint him as an immature hot-dogger, who consistently takes unecessary risks endangering his life and the lives of others. He definitely has fortitude and the

I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others.This is a story that, by all accounts, should not have been told in the first-person. How Aron Ralston managed to survive six days trapped beneath that boulder, with his health, sanity and spirit in tact is beyond me. He's definitely strong, determined and more than a little lucky, but I couldn't stop one thought from forming in the back of my mind as I

There is only one character in this book, and that character is, you guessed it, Aron Ralston. Between a Rock and a Hard Place is Ralston's account of his ordeal pinned to a canyon wall by a half-ton chockstone in Blue John Canyon. He alternates between chapters telling of the delirium of those five days and the choices he must make, and a sort of "how I came to be the way I am" recounting of his life story. The irony of the book reveals itself to the reading pretty early on. A seemingly random

Most people have heard of the story of the man who is hiking in southern Utah, gets his arm caught by a falling boulder and has to cut off his hand to escape. I saw the Dateline on this right after it happened and was inspired by his story. The book, though, has given me a completely different perspective. The first few chapters were exciting, describing his hike and the fall of the boulder. Then, Aron continues to flashback to other adventures that he has had...and there are a lot. In every one