127 hrs

Description

April 2003: Aron Ralston, 26, is on a solo hike deep in the Canyonlands National Park of Utah in the American west. A loose boulder sends him tumbling into a deep crevasse and pins his right arm to the canyon wall. Wedged in place, it will not budge, no matter what he tries:

"This marks 24 hours of being stuck. I've been chipping away, more to keep warm than anything. I have about 150ml of water left, which should keep me alive until tomorrow night …if I'm lucky."


Twenty-four hours stretches into 48, then 72. He didn't tell anyone where he was hiking, so Aron knows his chances for rescue are nil as he chronicles the ordeal in a video diary on the camera he carried in his backpack. Finally after five days he decides he must cut off his arm in order to escape; all he has is a dull camping knife, but he manages the grueling amputation, drags himself out of his rocky prison and hikes out to safety.