{ BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE }

First Blogged about this last year (2004-10-25), and picked up my copy of the book today.

{ BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE }
“Could you cut off your own arm to save yourself? Aron Ralston did. Trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down in the bottom of an isolated Utah canyon for six days, this is the story of how he chose life over potential death; and set about removing the limb to extricate himself.”

 In the first chapter, Aron describes the fact that he is litening to a Phish CD from the February 15 Phish Show (2003). “Hmmm”, says I, “can I get a copy of this to listen to as I read the story?” Sure enough livephish.com has “02-15-03 Thomas & Mack Center , Las Vegas, NV” has an MP3 download for US$9.95.

I’ll let you know how it goes with the book

A good read, not just a ‘how I cut my hand off’ story, but a good look at why he was into extreme hiking and climbing. I’ll give it 7.5/10

LINKS:

[1] http://www.aralston.com/ [Aron Ralston]

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