When Aron Ralston went on a climbing trip in Utah in May of 2003, he was a young man searching for solitude and adventure. Six days later, he was being airlifted to a local area hospital, injured so severely that he was fighting for his life. Between a Rock and a Hard Place is Mr. Ralston's autobiographical account of those harrowing six days, both the challenges he faced and the lengths to which he had to go in order to survive. But this is not a powerful tale just because of Mr. Ralston's extraordinary situation; his serenity in the face of death is striking. Some of this is surely due to shock; another portion is surely due to the hindsight of having survived to tell his tale. Nonetheless, his story is shot through with enough examples of his steadfastness to suggest that Mr. Ralston possesses an admirable degree of self-composure that, one can only imagine, will serve him well in the years to come.(4/5 Stars)
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Aron Ralston
When Aron Ralston went on a climbing trip in Utah in May of 2003, he was a young man searching for solitude and adventure. Six days later, he was being airlifted to a local area hospital, injured so severely that he was fighting for his life. Between a Rock and a Hard Place is Mr. Ralston's autobiographical account of those harrowing six days, both the challenges he faced and the lengths to which he had to go in order to survive. But this is not a powerful tale just because of Mr. Ralston's extraordinary situation; his serenity in the face of death is striking. Some of this is surely due to shock; another portion is surely due to the hindsight of having survived to tell his tale. Nonetheless, his story is shot through with enough examples of his steadfastness to suggest that Mr. Ralston possesses an admirable degree of self-composure that, one can only imagine, will serve him well in the years to come.(4/5 Stars)
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