Aron Ralston explains how he cut off his arm — Transcript

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1. 0:00and I held it up against my arm and I
2. 0:01started pushing into it and I I couldn't
3. 0:03get the the knife to sink in and so I
4. 0:06switched over and I I pulled out the
5. 0:08smaller blade and with the smaller blade
6. 0:11then I actually started the the
7. 0:13amputation the smaller one was still a
8. 0:14little more sharp the smaller blade was
9. 0:17just 2 in long I just dove into this
10. 0:20exercise this this serg surgical
11. 0:23procedure and started cutting away he
12. 0:27cut through the top layer of skin and
13. 0:29muscle until he saw saw an artery only
14. 0:31then did he realize he'd forgotten to
15. 0:33apply the tourniquet he had fashioned
16. 0:35days earlier from the insulated lining
17. 0:37of his water bottle I put the tourniquet
18. 0:40on and I was bleeding down the wall
19. 0:43and I severed the artery and he through
20. 0:46more muscle and two more arteries then
21. 0:49tendon the most difficult layer his dull
22. 0:52knife was unable to cut through through
23. 0:54it so I ended up taking the plier side
24. 0:56of the
25. 0:57knife and using that to to grab and
26. 1:00twist and rip
27. 1:03um until the tendon gave away it was
28. 1:06slow painful excruciating work he hacked
29. 1:09away at his arm for nearly an hour layer
30. 1:12by layer until he saw what he knew would
31. 1:15cause the most intense pain yet and then
32. 1:18I was looking at the the nerve this
33. 1:20little strand of
34. 1:22spaghetti running
35. 1:24through running through my arm and I had
36. 1:27to take the knife and pry it up and even
37. 1:31just when I touched it it felt like the
38. 1:33fire
39. 1:34of sticking my arm
40. 1:39into just pot of liquid metal it it
41. 1:44burned all the way up up my arm and and
42. 1:47I took it again and lifted it up I knew
43. 1:49it was going to hurt and I plucked it up
44. 1:53and did in a motion like that and that
45. 1:56that fire sensation redoubled and went
46. 2:00all the way up to my
47. 2:03shoulder but I knew that was the hard
48. 2:05part it was only a few more moments of
49. 2:07work after that and then boom and I
50. 2:10wasn't even attached anymore and I fell
51. 2:12down like this and I I
52. 2:17I I was
53. 2:28free
54. 2:30you were
55. 2:33reborn it was was the happiest moment of
56. 2:38my
57. 2:39life it's it's funny to think about it
58. 2:42being there will never be a more
59. 2:45powerful experience